Professional mobility in Islamic societies (700-1750) : new concepts and approaches

Author(s)

• El Merheb, Mohamad
• Berriah, Mehdi
• Fierro, Ma. Isabel (María Isabel)

Bibliographic Information

Professional mobility in Islamic societies (700-1750) : new concepts and approaches

edited by Mohamad El-Merheb, Mehdi Berriah

（Handbuch der Orientalistik = Handbook of Oriental studies, section 1 . The Near and Middle East / edited by Maribel Fierro ... [et al.] ; v. 157）

Brill, c2021

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 ('ulama') 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 Hernandez Lopez, Konrad Hirschler, Mohamad El-Merheb, Marta G. Novo, M. A. H. Parsa, M. Syifa A. Widigdo.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Acknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Professional Mobility as a Defining Characteristic of Pre-Modern Islamic Societies Mohamad El-Merheb and Mehdi Berriah part 1: Networks of Knowledge and Learning 1 Medinan Scholars on the Move: Professional Mobility at the Umayyad Court Mehmetcan Akpinar 2 Professional Mobility and Social Capital: A Note on the muhaddithat in Kitab Tarikh Baghdad Nadia Maria El Cheikh 3 The Aqit Household: Professional Mobility of a Berber Learned Elite in Premodern West Africa Marta G. Novo part 2: Social Mobility and Professionalization 4 The Professional Mobility of Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar between the Quest for Knowledge and the Confluence with Power Amal Belkamel 5 Mobility and Versatility of the 'ulama' in the Mamluk Period: The Case of Ibn Taymiyya Mehdi Berriah 6 Mobility among the Andalusi qudat: Social Advancement and Spatial Displacement in a Professional Context Adday Hernandez Lopez part 3: Power, Politics, and Mobility 7 Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni's Mobility and the Saljuq's Project of Sunni Political Unity M. Syifa Amin Widigdo 8 Iran's State Literature under Afghan Rule (1722-1729) M.A.H. Parsa 9 Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn T alh a and Ibn Jama'a Mohamad El-Merheb Index

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Details

• NCID: BC08264514
• ISBN:
  • 9789004467620
• LCCN: 2021026990
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 245 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN656.Z9
  • DC23 : 305.5/1309176
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social mobility -- Islamic countries -- History
  • LCSH : Islamic countries -- Civilization
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00635968