- In “The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022)), Lev Weitz (Catholic University of America) “presents an edition, translation, and study of a short Arabic petition to a qāḍī and the rescript issued in response.”
- In “A Form-Critical Analysis of the al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna Stories: Tribal, Ideological, and Legal Incentives behind the Transmission of the Prophet’s Biography” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022)), Ehsan Roohi argues that “[d]ue to their heavy reliance on late, contradictory, and tendentious literary sources, scholars of formative Islam have always been in danger of taking as authentic evidence what is mere literary topos.”
- In “Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022)), Petra M. Sijpesteijn (Leiden University) and Alon Dar “examine[] how interdependent relationships between individuals and groups contributed to the early caliphate’s longevity and success.”
- In “Portrait of a Jurist between Obedience and Rebellion: The Case of Abū Ḥanīfa” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022)), Aysegul Simsek (Marmara University) explores how “[e]ven though there is a consensus among Muslim scholars that rebellion without valid grounds is not acceptable, they have disagreed on the permissibility of rebellion against an unjust ruler.”
- In “The Umayyad and Early Abbasid Inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina” (Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022)), Harry Munt (University of York) “offers a translation and discussion of a chapter of a relatively little known late third/ninth- or early fourth/tenth-century text that contains a transcription of the inscriptions that could be seen around the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina after the renovation work undertaken there on the orders of the third Abbasid caliph, Muḥammad al-Mahdī.”