Papers Presented at a Conference in Memory of David Ayalon, 9 June 1999.
Contents: Moshe Sharon, ‘The Scholarly Work of David Ayalon’; Amikam Elad, ‘The Ethnic Composition of the Abbāsid Revolution: A Reevaluation of Some Recent Research’; Nimrod Hurvitz, ‘Anguish of the Victorious: The Miḥna and the Formation of the Ḥanbalī School of Law’; Reuven Amitai, ‘The Conversion of Ilkhan Tegüder Aḥmad to Islam’; Amnon Cohen, ‘Coffee and Coffeehouses in Jerusalem’; David Kushner, ‘Egypt as Seen by the Arab Community of Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period’; Jacob Lassner, ‘Reflections on the Reign of the Caliph Ja‛far Al-Mutawakkil: The Murder of Itākh the Turk’.