Peter Webb
Universitair docent Arabische Literatuur en Cultuur
- Naam
- Dr. P.A. Webb
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- +31 71 527 1689
- p.a.webb@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0002-6861-0767
Peter Webb is universitair docent aan het Instituut voor Regiostudies.
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Universitair docent Arabische Literatuur en Cultuur
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Webb P.A. (2024), The History and Significance of the Meccan Hajj : from Pre-Islam to the Rise of the Abbasids. In: Khan Q.M. (red.), Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage : Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili. London: Gingko. 28-46.
- Webb P.A. (2024), Al cuore dell’Islam. Gli Arabi: religione, legge e struttura sociale [At the Heart of Islam. The Arabs: Religion, Language and Society]. In: Bernardini M. & Tottoli R. (red.), Mondi Islamici. Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore. 139-176.
- Webb P.A. (2023), Making war ethnic: Arab-Persian identities and conflict on the Euphrates frontier. In: Stouraitis Y. (red.), War and collective identities in the Middle Ages: east, west, and beyond. Yorkshire: ARC Humanities Press. 33-63.
- Webb P.A. (2023), The Hajj before Muhammad: the early evidence in poetry and hadith, Millennium 20(1): 33-63.
- Webb P.A. (2022), Light in the tunnel: Arab stories of endurance through suffering Bespreking van: Bray J. Stories of piety and prayer, Library of Arabic Literature, TLS: The Times Literary Supplement (6198): .
- Webb P.A. (2022), Bedouin, bandits and caliphal disappearance: a reappraisal of the Qaramita and their success in Arabia. In: Berkel M. van & Osti L. (red.), The historian of Islam at work. Leiden: Brill. 254-282.
- Webb P.A. (2021), From the sublime to the ridiculous: Yemeni Arab identity in Abbasid Iraq. In: Pohl W. & Kramer R. (red.), Empires and Community in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE. Oxford Studies in Early Empires. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 283-328.
- Webb P.A. (2021), Fragmentation and integration: a response to the contributions of Hugh Kennedy and Walter Pohl. In: Pohl W. & Kramer R. (red.), Empires and Community in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, c. 400-1000 CE. Oxford Studies in Early Empires. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 76-88.
- Webb P.A. (2021), Protection granted by women: between law and literature, Annales Islamologiques 54: 31-56.
- Webb P.A. (2021), Bespreking van: Ramzi Rouighi (2019), Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib: University of Pennsylvania Press. International Journal of Middle East Studies 53(4): 714-716.
- Webb P.A. (2021), Continuity and change: elite responses to the founding of the caliphate. In: Bent J. van den, Eijnde F. van den & Weststeijn J. (red.), Late antique responses to the Arab conquests. Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean nr. 5. Leiden: Brill. 120-170.
- Webb P.A. (2020) The hand’s tongue: The emotional significance of artistry and writing in Islam. Bespreking van: Blair Sheila, Bloom Jonathan, Osborne J.R. & Mozzati Luca, By the Pen and What They Write | Letters of Light | Islamic Art. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement (6106): 28-29.
- Webb P.A. (2020), Cry me a Jāhiliyya: muslim reconstructions of pre-Islamic Arabian culture - a case study. In: Sijpesteijn P. & Adang C. (red.), Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll. Leiden: Brill. 235-280.
- Webb P.A. (2020), al-Azd. In: , Encyclopaedia of Islam 3: Brill. 1-5.
- Webb P.A. (2020), Bakr b. Wā'il. In: , Encyclopaedia of Islam 3: Brill. 6-9.
- Webb P.A. (2020), Ka'b ibn Mālik. In: , Encyclopaedia of Islam 3: Brill. 73-74.
- Webb P.A. (2020), Kalb ibn Wabara. In: , Encyclopaedia of Islam 3: Brill. 75-76.
- Webb P.A (2020), Bespreking van: Ulrich Brian (2019), Arabs in the Early Islamic Empire: Exploring al-Azd Tribal Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83(2): 345-347.
- Webb P.A. (2020), Ethnicity, power and Umayyad Society: the rise and fall of the people of Maʿadd. In: Marsham A. (red.), The Umayyad World. London: Routledge. 65-102.
- Webb P.A. (2020), "The Spread of Islam in Arabia: expressing conversion in poetry". In: Hurvitz N., Sahner C., Simonsohn U. & Yarbrough L. (red.), Conversion to Islam in the Pre-Modern Age. Oakland: University of California Press. 63-68.
- Webb P.A. (2020), Desert places: toponyms in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, Semitica et Classica 13: 251-265.
- Webb P.A. (2019), The Arab Thieves: Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Sections 1-2 nr. 6. Leiden: Brill.
- Webb P.A. (2019), Arabia: the land of Frankincense and myrrh. In: Whitfield S. (red.), Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes. London: Thames and Hudson. 232-235.
- Webb P.A. (2019), Islam: a new faith on the Silk Roads. In: Whitfield S. (red.), Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes. London: Thames and Hudson. 256-267.
- Webb P.A. (2019), Iram. In: Fleet K., Krämer G., Matringe D., Nawas J. & Rowson E. (red.), Encyclopaedia of Islam 3: Brill. 117-121.
- Webb P.A. (2018), Bespreking van: Shahab Ahmed (2017), Before Orthodoxy: the Satanic Verses in Early Islam: Harvard. Journal of Arabic Literature 49: 162-167.
- Qutaybah Ibn (2017), The Excellence of the Arabs [Fadl al-'Arab wa-l-tanbih 'ala 'ulumiha] (vertaling Montgomery J., Savant S. & Webb P.A.). Library of Arabic Literature. New York and Abu Dhabi: New York University Press.
- Webb P.A. (2017), Identity and Social Formation in the Early Caliphate. In: Berg H. (red.), Routledge Handbook on Early Islam. London: Routledge. 129-158.
- Webb P.A. (2017), Bespreking van: Munt Harry (2014), The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Bulletin 22: 43-45.
- Webb P.A. (2016), Bespreking van: Fisher Greg, Arabs and Empires before Islam. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 79(3): 640-642.
- Webb P.A. (2016), The origin of Arabs: Middle Eastern ethnicity and myth-making, British Academy Review 27(1): 34-39.
- Webb P.A. (2016), Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Webb Peter (2016), Bespreking van: Hirschler Konrad, Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement .
- Webb P.A. (2016), Muḥammad und die gāhiliyya: Die vorislamische Zeit im prophetischen ḥadīt. In: Schmidt Nora, Schmid Nora K. & Neuwirth A. (red.), Denkraum Spätantike. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 447-466.
- Webb P.A. (2015), Pre-Islamic al-Shām in Classical Arabic Literature: Spatial narratives and history-telling, Studia Islamika 110(2): 1-30.
- Webb P.A. (2015), Bespreking van: al-Azmeh Aziz (2014), The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23: 149-153.
- Webb P.A. (2015), Bespreking van: Hoyland Robert (2015), In God's Path: Oxford University Press. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement .
- Webb P.A. (2014), Al-Jāhiliyya: Uncertain Times of Uncertain Meanings, Der Islam: journal of the history and culture of the middle east 91(1): 69-94.
- Webb P.A. (2013), Bespreking van: Gelder Geert Jan van (2012), Classical Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement .
- Webb P.A. (2013), The Hajj before Muhammad: Journeys to Mecca in Muslim Narratives of Pre-Islamic History. In: Saif Liana & Porter Venetia (red.), The Hajj: Collected Papers. London: British Museum Press. 6-14.
- Webb P.A. (2013), Poetry and the Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Poetry and narratives of the Battle of Ṣiffīn. In: Kennedy Hugh (red.), Poetry and Warfare in Middle Eastern Literatures. London: IB Tauris. 119-141.
- Webb P.A. (2012), Bespreking van: Malcolm Lyons (2012), The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. TLS: The Times Literary Supplement .
- Webb P.A. (2012), ‘Foreign Books’ in Arabic Literature: discourses on books, knowlegde and ethnicity in the writings of al-Jahiz, Arabica 12(1): 16-55.
- Webb P.A. (2012), Muhammad’s ascension to the Heavenly Spheres: ‘Utopian Travel’: Fact and Fiction in making Utopias, Middle Eastern Literatures 15(3): 240-256.
- Webb P.A. (2012), Bespreking van: Holland Tom, In the Shadow of the Sword. Evening Standard .