Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750)

New Concepts and Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46762-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 157, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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 Hernández López, Konrad Hirschler, Mohamad El-Merheb, Marta G. Novo, M. A. H. Parsa, M. Syifa A. Widigdo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

El-Merheb, Mohamad

Berriah, Mehdi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Mohamad El-Merheb is a historian of Islamic political thought. He studies the ideal of ‘the rule of law’ as expressed in advice literature under the Mamluks, Ayyubids, and Seljuqs. His other research interests include the depiction of kings Louis IX and Frederic II in Islamic historiography and professional mobility in pre-modern Islam.

Mehdi Berriah is Assistant Professor of Classical Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (VU). His research and publications focus on Islamic military history, furusiyya, Islamic thought, jihad ideology, Islamic law of war and ulamology. He is currently leading a research project entitled "The taymiyyan corpus on jihad: reception, decontextualization and use by contemporary jihadist movements" funded by the French Ministry of the Interior.

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.