List of the Qur'anic verses related to cosmic worship List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration Note on Contributors Introduction Part I: Cosmic Worship 1. Cosmic Worship in the Qur'an: The Genealogy of Some Verses and the Foundation of its Rationale (Guillaume de Vaulx d'Arcy) 2. When the Cosmos Worships God: What Grammar Tells Us about Qur'anic Other-Than-Human Persons (Melanie Hanitsch) 3. The Testament of Adam : The Syriac Origins of a Hadith on the Prayers of Creatures (Nicolas Payen) 4. Creatures' Sensitivity and Animal Piety in the Hadith Literature (Imran Khan) 5. The Natural World as a Medium of Otherworldly Contemplation and Animals as Figures of Piety in Ibn Barraan of Seville (d. 536/1141) (Florence Ollivry) 6. Animal Piety, Angelic Piety and Human Impiety (Pierre Lory) Part II: Animal Worship 7.

Animals in the Qur'an: Symbols, Representations and Models of Piety (Geneviève Gobillot) 8. Animal Devotion in Medieval Arabic Zoography. A Reading of al-ai's Book of Animals (Nicolas Payen) 9. Can Animals be Called Muslims? Archaeology of the Statement: 'We Animals,Are Monotheists, Muslims and Believers' ( Epistles of the Brethren in Purity ) (Guillaume de Vaulx d'Arcy) 10. The Role of Animals and Saints in the Tawba of the Sleeping Man from the Kitab al-Tawwabin of Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (Hala Abdel Meguid) 11. Animals my Masters, according to Ibn Arabi (Denis Gril) 12. On Cats and Piety. Presentation and Translation of al-Qari's Risalat al-Birra fi ubb al-hirra (Jens Ole Schmitt) 13.

Living the Life of a Dog. Cynicism in the Sufi Milieu (Walid Ghali) Conclusion Index.