Families, authority, and the transmission of knowledge in the early modern Middle East / edited by Christoph U. Werner, Maria Szuppe, Nicolas Michel, Albrecht Fuess.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Werner, Christoph U., editor.
• Szuppe, Maria, editor.
• Michel, Nicolas, 1962- editor.
• Fuess, Albrecht, editor.
• Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

• Miroir de l'Orient Musulman ; 10.
• Miroir de l'Orient Musulman ; volume 10

Language:

• English
• French
• German

Subjects (All):

• Families--Middle East--History.
• Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
• Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.
• Knowledge, Sociology of.
• History.
• Families.
• Middle East.

Physical Description:

334 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2021]

Language Note:

10 contributions in English, 2 in French, 1 in German.

Summary:

This collection of articles traces the themes of family and of transmission in the early modern Middle East from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. This volume brings together innovative contributions on the history and nature of families in the early modern Middle East, covering Central Asia, Iran, Ottoman Turkey and the Arab World from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century and beyond. It argues the importance of connecting the key concept of family in its widest possible meaning, whether descent group, lineage, household or dynasty, with the notion of transmission of knowledge, authority, status and power, and develops this idea through a pluridisciplinary and cross-regional approach. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish as well as art and material culture, the individual articles detail processes and dynamics of transmission, thus initiating a comparative dialogue.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Religious Lineages and Knowledge Networks
• Family and Transmission of Knowledge in Mamluk and Early Ottoman Damascus / Torsten Wollina
• Narrating a Lineage's Transition Crisis between Biography and Hagiography
• A Case from Ottoman Egypt / Adam Sabra
• Converts and Polemicists as Bridges in Knowledge Networks
• The Case of Safavid Iran / Alberto Tiburcio
• Kinship, Status, and Legitimacy
• Warriors, Kings, and Caliphs
• Questions of Origins and Dynastic Culture in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Kurdistan / Sacha Alsancakli
• Wann fallt der Apfel nicht weit vom Stamm?
• Zeitpunkte familiarer Amtsubertragung in mamlukischer Zeit / Syrinx von Hees
• Families of Cairene Civil Servants, from Mamluk to Ottoman Times (Fifteenth
• Sixteenth Centuries) / Nicolas Michel
• Marriage Alliances and Political Strategies
• Sihr and Musahara in Mamluk Royal Relations
• Transmitting Power and Enlarging Networks Through In-Law Ties in Pre-Modern Egypt / Albrecht Fuess
• L'histoire du pacha exemplaire marie a une sultane extravagante
• Genre, politique et recit intime a la cour ottomane au XVIIe siecle / Juliette Dumas
• Professional Lineages and Transmission
• Family Legacy Versus Regional Style: Tracing Three Generations of Woodworkers in Mazandaran (Iran, 1460s-1500s) / Sandra Aube
• La formation d'un calligraphe dans le monde iranien / Francis Richard
• Managing Households and Family Estates
• The Ra/avi Sayyids of Mash had
• Families within a Family / Christoph U. Werner
• Documenting the Barnabadi Estate
• Establishment and Growth of a `Saintly' Family in Fifteenth to Eighteenth-Century Herat / Maria Szuppe
• Creating a Family Property in Early Modern Iran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 9782503592893
• 2503592899

OCLC:

1240241656

Online:

The Class of 1924 Book Fund Home Page