Professional mobility in Islamic societies (700-1750) : new concepts and approaches / edited by Mohamad El-Merheb, Mehdi Berriah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

El Merheb, Mohamad, editor.

Berriah, Mehdi, editor.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; Section 1, v. 157.

Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section One, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social mobility--Islamic countries--History.

Social mobility.

History.

Islamic countries--Civilization.

Islamic countries.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xii, 245 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"The present edited volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of mobility in pre-modern Islamic societies. It includes nine remarkable case studies from different parts of the Islamic world that examine the professional mobility within the literati and, especially, the social-cum-cultural group of Muslim scholars ("ulamā") between the eighth and the eighteenth centuries. Based on individual case studies and quantitative mining of biographical dictionaries and other primary sources from Islamic Iberia, North and West Africa, Umayyad Damascus and the Hejaz, Abbasid Baghdad, Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria and Egypt, various parts of the Seljuq Empire, and Hotakid Iran, this edited volume presents professional mobility as a defining characteristic of pre-modern Islamic societies. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpinar, Amal Belkamel, Mehdi Berriah, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Adday Hernández López, Konrad Hirschler, Mohamad El Merheb, Marta G. Novo, M. A. H. Parsa, M. Syifa A. Widigdo"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Professional mobility as a defining characteristic of pre-modern Islamic societies / Mohamad El Merheb, Mehdi Berriah

Part 1: Networks of knowledge and learning. Medinan scholars on the move : professional mobility at the Umayyad court / Mehmetcan Akpunar

Professional mobility and social capital : a note on the muḥaddithāt in Kitāb Tārīkh Baghdād / Nadia Maria El Cheikh

The Aqīt household : professional mobility of a Berber learned elite in premodern West Africa / Marta G. Novo

Part 2: Social mobility and professionalization. The Professional mobility of Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār between the quest for knowledge and the confluence with power / Amal Belkamel

Mobility and versatility of the ʿulamāʼ in the Mamluk Period : the case of Ibn Taymiyya / Mehdi Berriah

Mobility among the Andalusī quḍāt : social advancement and spatial displacement in a professional context / Adday Hernández López

Part 3: Power, politics, and mobility. Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī's mobility and the Saljūq's Project of Sunnī political unity / M. Syifa Amin Widigdo

Iran's state literature under Afghan rule (1722-1729) / dr M.A.H. Parsa

Islamic political thought and professional mobility : the intellectual and empirical worlds of Iba Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʻa / Mohammad El-Merheb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004467620

9004467629

OCLC:

1246622984