Paul E Walker

Datos Biográficos

ID498334
NOMBREPaul E Walker
NOMBRESPaul E
APELLIDOWalker
FIRMAWALKER P E
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Chicago
ORCID0000-0002-7799-212X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS70
TOTAL DE CITAS96
TOTAL COMO AUTOR70
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1974
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Neglected Source for the Death of Badr al-Jamālī, the Elevation to the Vizierate of al-Afḍal, and the Highly Contentious Succession to the Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Mustanṣir

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2025

    The History of the Patriarchs of the Copic Church contains an account written by a contemporary of the events surrounding the highly disputed succession to the Fatimid imam-caliph al-Mustanṣir. It provides some important details concerning what happened that were not previously recognized and have not been discussed in earlier scholarship

  • The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids

    Paul E WalkerCHAPTERReligious and Intellectual…2023

  • Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

    Paul E WalkerBOOKFatimid History and Ismaili…2023

    Contents: Introduction Fatimid institutions of learning Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate The Ismaili da'wa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim Another family of Fatimid chief Qadis: the al-Fariqis A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) The 'crusade' of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence Al-Maqrizi and the Fatimids Purloined symbols of the past: the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the …

  • Shahrastānī and the Ismailis

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2023

    The exact sectarian affiliation of Shahrastānī has long been a matter of serious debate. Was he possibly an adherent of the Ismaili cause? Considerable recent scholarship purports to establish a connection. The evidence consists of some off-handed remarks by his own contemporaries; what he himself has to say about the Ismailis in his Kitāb al-Milal wa-l-niḥal; and finally, a set of doctrines or analytical categories he uses in his later writings …

  • The Inaudacity of Hope

    Paul E Walker, P WalkerARTICLEPedagogy Critical Approaches to…2022

    Writing assessment and social justice rely largely on success-trajectory narratives, which sideline productive failure as a means of resisting normative futurity-based modes of education and policy. This essay offers an alternative perspective on failure in writing assessment and social justice by illustrating how relying on rhetoric as a hope and means for positive change can undermine aims of social justice and a critical education. By examinin…

  • Planning a Christian campus in Quasi-colonial China

    Yinrui Xie, Paul E WalkerARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2022

    Constructed from 1904 to 1931 in Guangzhou, Lingnan University was among the thirteen Christian universities founded by Western missionaries in China. It featured a hybrid campus with ‘Chinese-style’ buildings disposed on a Beaux-Arts planning scheme. This article argues that the campus planning and architectural design of Lingnan University was shaped by the unique quasi-colonial power interactions in Guangzhou involving both cooperation and con…

  • Al-Ghazālī as a Key Historical Witness to the Ismaili Doctrine of taʿlīm

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2022

    The writings of al-Ghazālī give the distinct impression that he was highly concerned with the threat the Ismailis and their doctrines posed. By his own admission, he wrote six separate treatises to refute and condemn them, most importantly his Faḍāʾiḥ al-bāṭiniyya (The infamies of the esotericists), which he composed in the year 488h (1095) in the months prior to his renunciation of government service and departure from Baghdad. His attack focuse…

  • Fugue in the Renaissance Motet

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerCHAPTERFugue in the Sixteenth Century2021

    This chapter explores fugal writing in the genre that contemporary writers indicated was the “home” of fugue: the motet. Beginning with the establishment by Jean Mouton and others of the classic Renaissance motet—based on serious counterpoint within a point-of-imitation structure—in the first two decades of the century, the fugal motet received its most important features at the hands of Nicolas Gombert in the 1530s when he expanded the use of im…

  • Fugue and Mode in the Sixteenth Century

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerCHAPTERFugue in the Sixteenth Century2021

    This chapter begins with a consideration of the vocabulary for fugal writing used by sixteenth-century authors, compares and contrasts this with the standard vocabulary used for the classic tonal fugue, and explains the book’s approach to the use of all of this terminology. In addition, the modal system as applied to polyphonic composition in the sixteenth century is laid out. Finally, the modern concept of “tonal types,” as described for English…

  • The Fugal Canzona of the Late Renaissance

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerCHAPTERFugue in the Sixteenth Century2021

    Not until the 1580s did composers begin to establish the canzona alla francese as an instrumental counterpart to, rather than an intabulation of, the French chanson. The center of this activity was Brescia, and imitation played a surprisingly important role. Despite the rather light, playful manner of its earliest manifestations, the genre had by century’s end begun to acquire serious contrapuntal rigor at the hands of Giovanni de Macque and othe…

  • Ricercar and Fantasia in the Sixteenth Century

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerCHAPTERFugue in the Sixteenth Century2021

    It is on the ricercar that most treatments of pre-Bach fugue have focused. The genre’s focus on serious fugal counterpoint can be traced to the year 1540, at the point when Gombert’s experiments had borne fruit, in a publication of ricercars by Willaert and others active in Venice. The central early contributions to the genre came from Venetian organists, both Italian and northern, including J. Buus, A. Padovano, and especially, beginning in the …

  • Conclusion

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerCHAPTERFugue in the Sixteenth Century2021

    Western art music developed at the most fundamental level out of the desire to elaborate on and heighten the body of Gregorian Chant that lay at its heart. As this development unfolded, musicians settled on a scheme to slow the chant down, place it at the bottom of, or later within, a polyphonic texture, and adorn it with their own musical ideas and inventions. Such a long-note cantus firmus served as the foundation of sophisticated composition f…

  • Fugue in the Sixteenth Century

    Paul E Walker, Paul Walker et al.BOOKFugue in the Sixteenth Century2021Citada por: 87

    This book explores the roots of the classic fugue and the early history of non-canonic fugal writing through the three principal fugal genres of the sixteenth century: motet, ricercar, and canzona. The book begins with the pivot in Western composition from an emphasis on variety to one on repetition, first developed by such Franco-Flemish composers as Loyset Compère and Josquin des Prez toward the end of the fifteenth century. By around 1520 Jean…

  • Proofs of Prophecy and the Refutation of the Ismaʿiliyya

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021

    Proofs of Prophecy and the Refutation of the Ismāʿīliyya: The Kitāb Ithbāt nubuwwat al-nabī by the Zaydī al-Muʾayyad bi-llāh al-Hārūnī (d. 411/1020). By Eva-Maria Lika. Worlds of Islam, vol. 9. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. Pp. vii + 177 (Eng.), 152 (Ar.). $149.99, €129.95, £106.99

  • Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021

    An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities. Edited and translated by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, vol. 87. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xii + 698, illus. $289, €223

  • The Pitti Palace Rock Crystal Ewer and the Sordid Story of How and Why It Came to Exist

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2018

  • A Governance Spectrum

    Open AccessIpswich Massachusetts USA QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment, A Mitchell…ARTICLEPARKS2017

    The size, scale and diversity of protected areas in Belize provide an informative case study of system management and governance that can offer a model for countries with expanding systems. The Belize National Protected Areas System is proportionately large for the size of the country, with terrestrial protected areas covering 36.6 per cent of the national territory and 19.8 per cent of the marine environment. The 108 sites in the National Protec…

  • Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem

    Open AccessBryan Mccannon, Bryan C McCannon et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2016Citada por: 2Referencias: 48

  • Captain Paul Cuffe (1759–1817)

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerARTICLEBlack Theology2015

    Captain Paul Cuffe was one of many African American, Caribbean and African persons who were involved in anti-slavery and racial justice struggles across the nineteenth century “Black Atlantic”. He was a highly skilled mariner, wealthy entrepreneur and advocate for the enslaved, yet his name has almost been forgotten, unlike Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano. This article tells Cuffe's life story and ponders the reasons why so many people lik…

  • Al-Ḥākim and the Dhimmīs

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEMedieval Encounters2015

    Dhimmī (non-Muslim subjects, mostly Christians and Jews, who were afforded protection by the Islamic state) persecution in Islamic Egypt included most notably that instigated by the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim from about 395/1004 until near the end of his reign in 411/1021. This ruler imposed burdensome restrictions and sumptuary regulations on Jews and Christians, causing significant numbers of them to adopt Islam. He also commenced the state-sponso…

  • Accounting for the Material Stock of Nations

    Open AccessTomer Fishman, Heinz Schandl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2014

    National material stock (MS) accounts have been a neglected field of analysis in industrial ecology, possibly because of the difficulty in establishing such accounts. In this research, we propose a novel method to model national MS based on historical material flow data. This enables us to avoid the laborious data work involved with bottom‐up accounts for stocks and to arrive at plausible levels of stock accumulation for nations. We apply the met…

  • Of Gardens and Prosperity

    Paul E Walker, Paul WalkerARTICLEWorldviews Global Religions…2014Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ), like many other Christians, believe in the importance of human stewardship over the natural world; yet within LDS doctrine, hints of less hierarchical inclusiveness of non-human beings can be found. The interpretation of LDS doctrine relating to the Fall underlie the influences of two LDS presidents, Ezra Taft Benson and Spencer W. Kimball, whose contrasting ideas illustrate that…

  • La predicación litúrgica islámica (juṭab) en un terreno de confrontación

    Open AccessPaul E WalkerARTICLEAnuario de Estudios Medievales2012

    En contextos de conflicto político y religioso, el sermón litúrgico islámico podía ser traumático, sobre todo si aludía a cambios de lealtad de un líder suní a otro chií (o viceversa). Durante más de dos siglos los fatimíes ismailíes se enfrentaron a los abasíes, reclamando respectivamente para sí el derecho a ser invocados en los sermones oficiales en las mezquitas. Un ejemplo dramático de este cambio de lealtades queda ilustrado en una copia li…

  • The Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shi‘i Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties under the Fatimids

    Open AccessPaul E WalkerCHAPTERIslam, the State, and Political…2011

    The Fatimids rose to political dominion in North Africa in 909. The new caliph, al-Mahdi, was already imam of the Shici followers but, until then, he had not actually ruled a politically defined territory. However, he and his successors thereafter were both imams in the religious sense and also rulers of an empire that grew from its original base in what is now Tunisia, Algeria, and Sicily. In 969, the Fatimids added Egypt, much of Syria, and the…

  • The Fatimid Caliph al-Aziz and His Daughter Sitt al-Mulk

    Paul E WalkerARTICLEJournal of Persianate Studies2011Citada por: 1

    In his youth the future al-Aziz, then merely the third son of the caliph al-Muizz, acquired a concubine, most likely a Greek-speaking captive, and produced with her a daughter who was to become the famous Sitt al-Mulk. Not only did her mother remain al-Aziz’s favorite long after he rose to the Fatimid throne in 975, she remained so until her death twenty years later, and the daughter continued throughout to hold a claim on his attention many cons…