List of Publications

Editions of Arabic Books

 
al-Sulamī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Kitāb Ādāb Al-Ṣuḥba. Jerusalem: Israel Oriental Society, 1954.
 
al-Balādhurī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā. Ansāb al-Ashrāf. Vol. IVa. Edited by Max Schloessinger. Revised and annotated by M. J. Kister. Jerusalem: Magnes press, 1971.
 
قسطر, مئير يعقوب وأحمد إدريس. المجتنى من أدب العرب وتأريخهم. تل أبيب: دار النشر العربي, 1968-1969
 

1960s

 
Kister, M. J. 'Notes on Three Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 23 (1960): 390-92.
 
———. 'The Social and Political Implications of Three Traditions in the Kitāb Al-Kharādj of Yaḥya b. Adam', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 3 (1960): 326-34.
 
———. [Review of: Abū Bakr Muḥammad al-Ṭurṭūshī, Kitāb al-Ḥawādith wa'l-Bidaʿ, ed. M. al-Ṭālibī, Tunis 1959], Journal of Semitic Studies 6 (1960): 326-334.
 
———. ''A Booth Like the Booth of Moses..' a Study of an Early Ḥadīth', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25 (1962): 150-55.
 
———. 'Notes on a Papyrus Account of the ʿAqaba Meeting', Le Muséon 76 (1963): 403-417.
 
———. 'ʿAn Yadin (Qur'ān, IX/29). An Attempt at Interpretation', Arabica 11 (1964): 272-78.
 
———. 'Notes on the Papyrus Text about Muḥammad's Campaign against the Banū Naḍīr," Archiv Orinetální 32 (1964): 233-236.
 
———. 'Notes on an Account of the Shura Appointed by ʿUmar b. Al-Khaṭṭāb', Journal of Semitic Studies 9 (1964): 320-26.
 
———. 'The Campaign of Ḥulubān: A New Light on the Expedition of Abraha', Le Muséon 78 (1965): 425-36.
Reprinted in:
- Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: IV
- The Arabs and Arabia on the eve of Islam. Ed. F. E. Peters. Aldershot: Ashgate (1999): 357-368.
 
———. 'Notes on Some Arabic Verses', Rivista degli Studi Orientali 41 (1966): 157-63.
 
———. 'Mecca and Tamīm (Aspects of their Relations)', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 8 (1965): 113-63.
Arabic version:
مكة وتميم. مظاهر من علاقتهم. ترجمها يحيى الجبوري, بغداد: دار الحرية, 1975
Reprinted in:
الحيرة ومكة وصلتهما بالقبائل العربية. ترجمها يحيى الجبوري, بغداد: دار الحرية, 1976
Hebrew Version:
מכה ותמים, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 29-1
 
———. 'The Market of the Prophet', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 8 (1965): 272-76.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: IX.
Hebrew version:
השוק של הנביא, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 76-74
 
———. 'The Expedition of Biʾr Maʿūna', Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of Hamilton A.R. Gibb. Ed. George Makdisi. Cambridge (USA): The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures of Harvard University; Leiden: Brill (1965): 337-357.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: X
 
———. ''God will never disgrace thee.' (The interpretation of an Early ḥadīth).' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1/2 (1965): 27-32.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: VII.
 
———. 'Al-Taḥannuth: An Inquiry into the Meaning of a Term', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 31 (1968): 223-36.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: V.
 
———. 'Al-Ḥīra: Some Notes on Its Relations with Arabia', Arabica 15 (1968): 143-169. 
Reprinted in:
- Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: VII.
- The Arabs and Arabia on the eve of Islam. Ed. F. E. Peters. Aldershot: Ashgate (1999): 81-107.
Arabic versions:
الحيرة ومكة وصلتهما بالقبائل العربية. ترجمها يحيى الجبوري, بغداد: دار الحرية, 1976: 8-39
الحيرة وعلاقتها بالجزيرة العربية. ترجمها خالد العسلي. العرب 7 (1973): 857-935.
الحيرة – ملاحظات عن علاقاتها مع الجزيرة العربية. ترجمها خالد العسلي. بين النهرين 7 (1974)
Hebrew version:
אלחירה: עיונים בקשרי עם ערב, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 66-49
 
———. ''You Shall Only Set out for Three Mosques'. A Study of an Early Tradition', Le Muséon 82 (1969): 173-96.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: III.
Hebrew version:
אל תצאו אלא לשלושה מסגדים: עיון במסורת קדומה, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 131-117
 
———. 'The Seven Odes: Some Notes on the Compilation of the Muʿallaqāt', Rivista degli Studi Orientali 44 (1969): 27-36.
Arabic Version: القصائد السبع. بعض الملاحظات حول جمع المعلّقات. ترجمها أنطون شماس. الشرق 5\1 (1970): 6-11, 15.
 

1970s

 
———. ''A Bag of Meat': A Study of an Early Ḥadīth', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 33 (1970): 267-75.
Reprinted in
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: VI.
 
———. 'A Work of Ibn Al-Kalbī on the Arab Peninsula', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 33 (1970): 590-91.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): IV.
 
———. 'Maqām Ibrāhīm. A Stone with an Inscription', Le Muséon 84 (1971): 477-91.
 
———. ''Rajab Is the Month of God.' A Study in the Persistence of an Early Tradition', Israel Oriental Studies 1 (1971): 191-223.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: XII.
 
———. 'Some Reports Concerning Mecca from Jāhiliyya to Islam', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 15 (1972): 61-93.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: II.
Hebrew version:
מכה בתקופת המעבר שבין הג'אהליה לאסלאם, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 48-31
 
———. 'Ḥaddithū ʿan Banī Isrāʾīla wa-lā Ḥaraja: A Study of an Early Tradition', Israel Oriental Studies 2 (1972): 215-39.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: XIV.
Hebrew version:
חדת'וא ען בני אסראיל ולא חרג': עיון במסורת קדומה, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 116-99
 
———. 'On the Papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 37 (1974): 547-71.
 
———. 'The Interpretation of Dreams. An Unknown Manuscript of Ibn Qutayba's 'ʿIbārat Al-Ruʾyā'', Israel Oriental Studies 4 (1974): 67-103.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): XIV.
 
———. 'The 'Kitāb al-Miḥan', a Book on Muslim Martyrology', Journal of Semitic Studies 20 (1975): 210-18.
 
———. 'Call Yourselves by Graceful Names'. Lectures in Memory of Professor Martin M. Plessner. Jerusalem: Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University, 1975: 3-25.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): XII.
 
———. 'Some Notes on Ridda Verses', Israel Oriental Studies 5 (1975): 120-28.
 
———. 'On a New Edition of the Dīwān of Ḥassān b. Thābit', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39 (1976): 265-86.
 
———. and M. Plessner. 'Notes on Caskel's Ğamharat an-Nasab', Oriens 25-26 (1976): 48-68.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): III.
 
———. 'On the Papyrus of Wahb b. Munabbih: An Addendum', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40 (1977): 125-27.
 
———. 'The Battle of the Ḥarra: Some Socio-Economic Aspects', Studies in Memory of Gaston Wiet. Ed. Myriam Rosen Ayalon. Jerusalem: Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977): 33-49.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: XV.
 
———. 'Some Reports Concerning Al-Tāʾif', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 1 (1979): 1-18.
Reprinted in:
Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980: XI.
 
———. '"Shaʿbān is My Month...". A Study of an Early Tradition', Studia Orientalia Memoriae D. H. Baneth Dedicate. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press & Institute of Asian and African Studies (1979): 63-70.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): XI.
 
———. 'Pare Your Nails: A Study of an Early Tradition', Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society Columbia University (Bravmann Memorial Volume) 11 (1979): 63-70.
Reprinted in:
- Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): X.
- Ḥadīth: Origins and Developments. Ed. Harald Motzki. Aldershot: Ashgate (2004): 279-286.
 
———. 'On the Wife of the Goldsmith from Fadak and Her Progeny. A Study in Jāhilī Genealogical Traditions', Le Muséon 92 (1979): 321-30.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): V.
Hebrew version:
על אשת הצורף מפדך וצאצאיה: עיון במסורות גנאלוגיות של ימי הג'אהליה, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 73-67
 

1980s

 
———. קיסטר, מ"י ומנחם קיסטר. על יהודי ערב – הערות, תרביץ מ"ח (1979): 30-321
 
———. Studies in Jāhiliyya and Early Islam. London: Variorum, 1980.
 
———. ''Labbayka, Allāhumma, Labbayka…' On a Monotheistic Aspect of a Jāhiliyya Practice', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 2 (1980): 33-57.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): I.
 
———. ''O God, Tighten Thy Grip on Muḍar ...' Some Socio-Economic and Religious Aspects of an Early Ḥadīth', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 24 (1981): 242-73.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): VII.
 
———. 'A Comment on the Antiquity of Traditions Praising Jerusalem'. The Jerusalem Cathedra. Jerusalem: Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi (1981): 185-6.
 
———. 'On 'Concessions' and Conduct. A Study in Early Ḥadīth'. Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society. Ed. G.H.A. Juynboll. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press (1982): 89-107, 214-230.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): XIII.
 
———. 'On a Fragment of a Private Letter of the First Century A.H.', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 3 (1982): 237-39.
 
———. 'On an Early Fragment of the Qurʾān', Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica Presented to Leon Nemoy on his Eightieth Birthday. Eds. S. R. Brunswick and J. C. Greenfield. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press (1982): 163-66.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): VI.
 
———. [Review of: Ibn al-Faqīh. Akhbār al-Buldān. Ed. A.S. Jamgotchian, Erevan, 1979], Bibliotheca Orientalis 39 (1982): 211-18.
 
———. 'The Sīrah Literature', The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1983): 352-67.
Hebrew version:
ספרות הסירה (הביוגרפיה של הנביא מוחמד), מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 237-215
 
———. ''...Illā Bi-Ḥaqqihi...': A Study of an Early Ḥadīth', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 5 (1984): 33-52.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): IX.
 
———. 'The Massacre of the Banū Qurayẓa: A Re-Examination of a Tradition', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 8 (1986): 61-96.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): VIII.
Hebrew version:
הטבח בבני קריט'ה: עיון מחודש במסורת, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 98-77
 
———. 'Mecca and the Tribes of Arabia: Some Notes on Their Relations', Studies in Islamic History and Civilization in Honour of Professor David Ayalon. Ed. M. Sharon. Jerusalem: Cana and Leiden: E.J. Brill (1986).33-57.
Reprinted in:
Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990): II.
 
———. 'Legends in tafsīr and ḥadīth Literature: The Creation of Ādam and Related Stories', Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qurʾān. Ed. Andrew Rippin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988: 82-114.
 
———. ''Do Not Assimilate Yourselves ...': Lā Tashabbahū', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 12 (1989): 321-71.
Reprinted in:
- Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): VI.
- Muslims and Others in Early Islamic Society.  Ed. Robert Hoyland. Aldershot: Ashgate (2004): 125-157.
Hebrew version:
""אל תדמו...", לא תשבהוא...", מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 192-179 (נספח מאת מנחם קיסטר בעמ' 200-193).
 

1990s

 
———. Society and Religion from Jāhiliyya to Islam. Aldershot: Variorum (1990).
 
———. 'On Strangers and Allies in Mecca', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 13 (1990): 113-54.
Reprinted in:
Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): I.
 
———. 'Land Property and Jihād: A Discussion of Some Early Traditions', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 34 no. 3 (1991): 270-311.
Reprinted in:
Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): IV.
Hebrew version:
הקניין הקרקעי והג'האד: דיון בכמה מסורות קדומות, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 153-132.
 
———. 'A Broken Tombstone with an Arabic Inscription', Israel Exploration Journal 41 (1991): 163-166.
 
———. 'The Sons of Khadīja', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16 (1993): 59-95.
Reprinted in:
The Life of Muḥammad. Ed. Uri Rubin. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum (1998): 57-93.
 
———. 'The Locust's Wing: Some Notes on Locusts in the Ḥadīth', Le Muséon 106 no. iii-iv (1993): 347-59.
Reprinted in:
Concepts and ideas at the dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): VIII.
 
———. 'Ādam: A Study of Some Legends in Tafsīr and Ḥadīth Literature', Israel Oriental Studies 13 (1993): 113-74.
Reprinted in:
Concepts and ideas at the dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): IX.
 
———. ''... And he Was Born Circumcised ...': Some Notes on Circumcision in Ḥadīth', Oriens 34 (1994): 10-30.
Reprinted in:
Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): VII.
Hebrew version:
וייוולד נימול...: כמה הערות על המילה בחדית', מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 214-201
 
———. 'Social and Religious Concepts of Authority in Islam', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 18 (1994): 84-127.
Reprinted in:
Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): V.
Hebrew version:
תפיסות חברתיות ודתיות של הסמכות השלטונית באסלאם, מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט): 178-154
 
———. 'Sanctity Joint and Divided: On Holy Places in the Islamic Tradition', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 20 (1996): 18-65.
 
———. Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997).
 
———.'Lā taqraʾū l-qurʾāna ʿalā l-muṣḥafiyyīn wa-lā taḥmilū l-ʿilma ʿani l-ṣaḥafiyyīn. Some notes on the Transmission of Ḥadīth,' Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 22 (1998): 127-162.
 
———. '"Exert Yourselves, O Banū Arfida!": Some Notes on Entertainment in the Islamic Tradition', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 23 (1999): 53-78.
 
———. מחקרים בהתהוות האסלאם. תרגם אהרן אמיר. ירושלים: מאגנס (תשנ"ט)
 

2000s

 
———. '"The Crowns of This Community" ... Some Notes on the Turban in the Muslim Tradition', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 24 (2000): 217-45.
 
———. 'The Struggle against Musaylima and the Conquest of Yamāma', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 27 (2002): 1-56.
 
———. '"lā yamassuhu illā 'l-muṭahharūn… notes on the interpretation of a Qurʾānic phrase', Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 34 (2008): 309-334.
 

Entries in The Encyclopaedia of Islam:

 
al-Aḳraʿ b. Ḥābis (Volume I, page 343, column 1)
 
Aktham b. Ṣayfī  (Volume I, page 345, column 1)
 
Bisṭām b. Ḳays (Volume I, page 1247, column 2)
 
Djābir b. ʿAbd Allāh (Volume XII, page 230, column 1)
 
Djāriya b. Ḳudāma al-Tamīmī (Volume II, page 480, column 2)
 
Ghālib b. Ṣaʿṣaʿa (Volume II, page 998, column 1)
 
Ḥādjib b. Zurāra  (Volume III, page 49, column 1)
 
al-Ḥārith b. Suraydj (Volume III, page 223, column 2)
 
al-Ḥurr b. Yazīd al-Tamīmī (Volume III, page 587, column 2)
 
Ḳays b. ʿĀṣim (Volume IV, page 832, column 1)
 
Khabbāb b. al-Aratt (Volume IV, page 896, column 2)
 
Khuzāʿa (Volume V, page 76, column 2)
Reprinted in: Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): II.
 
Ḳuḍāʿa (Volume V, page 314, column 2)
Reprinted in: Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate (1997): III.
 
Maḳām Ibrāhīm (Volume VI, page 104, column 2)
 
al-Mundhir b. Sāwā (Volume VII, page 570, column 1)
 
Radjab (Volume VIII, page 373, column 2).
 

Entry in The Encyclopaedia of Qurʾān:

 
Musaylima (Volume 3, page 460, column 2)