Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) : New Concepts and Approaches

El-Merheb, Mohamad (EDT)/ Berriah, Mehdi (EDT)

Brill（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004695955
• DDC分類 305.51309176

Full 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 (ʿulamāʾ) 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.

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 Akpınar

2 Professional Mobility and Social Capital: A Note on the muḥaddithāt in Kitāb Tārīkh Baghdād

 Nadia Maria El Cheikh

3 The Aqīt 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 Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār between the Quest for Knowledge and the Confluence with Power

 Amal Belkamel

5 Mobility and Versatility of the ʿulamāʾ in the Mamluk Period: The Case of Ibn Taymiyya

 Mehdi Berriah

6 Mobility among the Andalusī quḍāt: Social Advancement and Spatial Displacement in a Professional Context

 Adday Hernández López

part 3: Power, Politics, and Mobility

7 Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī's Mobility and the Saljūq's Project of Sunnī 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 Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa

 Mohamad El-Merheb

Index