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Notes
1 Bryer, Origins of the Druze Religion, later published as Bryer, “The Origins of the Druze Religion.”
2 [Dīn al-Tawḥīd, “the Religion of Monotheism”, is the name that the Druze give to their religion, tawḥīd (the unity of God) being the fundamental principle of Islam.]
3 Stern, Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Thought; Stern, History and Culture.
4 Stern, Studies in Early Ismā‘īlism.
5 Latham and Mitchell, “Bibliography of S.M. Stern.”
6 Hourani, Stern, and Brown, Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition.
7 Stern, Hispano-Strophic Poetry.
8 Hourani, “Samuel Stern,” 74–5.
9 Ibid., 75–6.
10 [For Stern’s work on Andalusian poetry, see Alan Jones’s contribution to the present volume.]
11 [For Stern’s work on the constitution of the Islamic city, see Valeria Piacentini’s contribution to the present volume.]
12 [This was the subject of a bitter dispute between Stern and Shlomo Pines, for which see Reynolds, A Muslim Theologian, 2–13.]
13 [Hatim Bhaisaheb Hamiduddin (d. 2012), scholar of Arabic and Islamic Studies.]
14 Bryer, “Analysis of Samuel M. Stern’s Writings,” IX–X.
15 See Bryer, “Origins”.
16 Walzer, “Samuel M. Stern,” 1.
17 Ibid., 14.
18 The Cassirers were a remarkable family, originally from Silesia and making their money from cable manufacture. The generation of Sofie’s father, Bruno, included Ernst, the philosopher, Richard the neurologist (1868–1925), Hugo (1869–1920) whose son Reinhold (1908–2001) married the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), and Bruno’s cousin, Paul (1871–1926), with whom he ran a publishing house and art gallery. Although continuing as an art collector Bruno increasingly concentrated on publishing mainly art books. After his death in Oxford in 1941, the husband of Sofie’s sister, Günter Hell/George Hill (d. 1995), took on the publishing, turning from art to Islamic and Middle Eastern themes. These included The Islamic City, edited by Albert Hourani and Samuel, and Islamic Philosophy and The Classical tradition, the Festschrift for Richard’s 70th Birthday edited by Samuel, Albert, and Vivian Brown.
19 [Isnād is the term used in Islamic hadith scholarship for the chain of transmitters of a saying of the Prophet.]
20 [Wilfrid Knapp (1924–2011), scholar of French, North African, and the Middle Eastern politics, founding fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford (Richard Walzer’s college), author of A History of War and Peace, 1939–1965 (1967), Unity and Nationalism in Europe since 1945 (1969), and North West Africa: a Political and Economic Survey (1977).]
21 [Softly, Softly ran on the BBC from 1965 to 1969.]
22 [Firdawsī (c. 935–1020), Sa‘dī (c. 1213–1291), and Ḥāfiẓ (1315–1390) are three of the most revered representatives of classical Persian literature.]
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David R. W. Bryer
David R. W. Bryer was Director of Oxfam GB between 1992 and 2001, having previously served as Overseas Director (1984–91), Area Co-ordinator for Africa (1981–84) and Field Director for the Middle East (1975–79) at the same organization. Prior to that he studied for an MA and DPhil in Oriental Studies at Worcester College, Oxford, and worked as Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1972–74). His DPhil thesis on “The Origins of the Druze Religion” was initially written under the supervision of Samuel Stern.