{"title":"Rebel’s Advocate: How Abū ʿUbayda Maʿmar b. al-Muthannā Came to be Labelled a Khārijite","authors":"Raashid S. Goyal","doi":"10.1086/716039","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With characteristic arrogance, Abū ʿ Ubayda (ca. 114 ah/ 732 ce–ca. 210 ah/825 ce) boasted that “never did two knights encounter one another [in battle], whether in the jāhiliyya or Islam, except that I knew both horse man and horse.”1 His student ʿ Umar b. Shabba (d. 262/ 876) rather considered him more knowledgeable of Islamic lore than of the ancients, while some proposed that it was correctly the other way around.2 Such qual","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"81 1","pages":"119 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716039","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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With characteristic arrogance, Abū ʿ Ubayda (ca. 114 ah/ 732 ce–ca. 210 ah/825 ce) boasted that “never did two knights encounter one another [in battle], whether in the jāhiliyya or Islam, except that I knew both horse man and horse.”1 His student ʿ Umar b. Shabba (d. 262/ 876) rather considered him more knowledgeable of Islamic lore than of the ancients, while some proposed that it was correctly the other way around.2 Such qual
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Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.