David R Vishanoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Vishanoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Vishanoff |
| SIGNATURE | VISHANOFF D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arabic literary papyri and Islamic renunciant piety
To the limited materials available for the study of the early Muslim tradition of renunciant piety ( zuhd ) may now be added the papyrus P.Vindob. AP 1854a–b of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, which is edited, translated, and annotated in this article. Its two incomplete and damaged leaves contain four texts that constitute a small anthology of meditations on the imminence of death and judgment: psalms 7–13 of the Islamic ‘Psalms of Davi…
A Reader’s Guide to al-Shāfiʿī’s Epistle on Legal Theory ( al-Risāla )
Al-Shāfiʿī’s famous Epistle on Legal Theory (al-Risāla) has long been hailed as formative for the discipline of Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), but its structure and the wording of some of its most important passages remain a puzzle. This essay is intended as an aide for the study of the Risāla’s Arabic text. It surveys scholarly disagreements about the work’s significance and structure, and argues that it is best understood as a sequence of…
Islam and Literalism
The Canonization of Islamic Law
Other Peoples’ Scriptures
The essays in this issue of Numen exemplify a shift in the comparative study of scriptures, highlighting their evanescence, their non-informative dimensions, and the ways in which they and the people who hold them sacred are reimagined across religious boundaries
Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo
Narratives of Islamic legal theory
An imagined book gets a new text
Numerous Arabic manuscripts of the 'Psalms of David' contain not the biblical Psalms but Muslim compositions in the form of exhortations addressed by God to David. A survey of five manuscripts reveals that all such texts studied to date can be traced to two early source collections, whose contents were rewritten and expanded by three medieval authors and numerous copyists to produce four distinct texts in seven different recensions. These texts i…
The Canonization of Islamic Law
An imagined book gets a new text
Numerous Arabic manuscripts of the 'Psalms of David' contain not the biblical Psalms but Muslim compositions in the form of exhortations addressed by God to David. A survey of five manuscripts reveals that all such texts studied to date can be traced to two early source collections, whose contents were rewritten and expanded by three medieval authors and numerous copyists to produce four distinct texts in seven different recensions. These texts i…
An imagined book gets a new text
Numerous Arabic manuscripts of the 'Psalms of David' contain not the biblical Psalms but Muslim compositions in the form of exhortations addressed by God to David. A survey of five manuscripts reveals that all such texts studied to date can be traced to two early source collections, whose contents were rewritten and expanded by three medieval authors and numerous copyists to produce four distinct texts in seven different recensions. These texts i…
Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo
Narratives of Islamic legal theory
Islam and Literalism
The Canonization of Islamic Law
Other Peoples’ Scriptures
The essays in this issue of Numen exemplify a shift in the comparative study of scriptures, highlighting their evanescence, their non-informative dimensions, and the ways in which they and the people who hold them sacred are reimagined across religious boundaries
A Reader’s Guide to al-Shāfiʿī’s Epistle on Legal Theory ( al-Risāla )
Al-Shāfiʿī’s famous Epistle on Legal Theory (al-Risāla) has long been hailed as formative for the discipline of Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), but its structure and the wording of some of its most important passages remain a puzzle. This essay is intended as an aide for the study of the Risāla’s Arabic text. It surveys scholarly disagreements about the work’s significance and structure, and argues that it is best understood as a sequence of…
Arabic literary papyri and Islamic renunciant piety
To the limited materials available for the study of the early Muslim tradition of renunciant piety ( zuhd ) may now be added the papyrus P.Vindob. AP 1854a–b of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, which is edited, translated, and annotated in this article. Its two incomplete and damaged leaves contain four texts that constitute a small anthology of meditations on the imminence of death and judgment: psalms 7–13 of the Islamic ‘Psalms of Davi…
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