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

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

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 so...

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Other Authors: Berriah, Mehdi (Editor), El-Merheb, Mohamad (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 157.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.

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Civilization.
Social mobility > Islamic countries > History.
Islamic countries > Civilization.

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Call Number: HN656.Z9 HN656.Z9 S677 2021

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright page
  • Foreword /
  • Konrad Hirschler
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps, Figures, Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction Professional Mobility as a Defining Characteristic of Pre-Modern Islamic Societies /
  • Mohamad El-Merheb and Mehdi Berriah
  • Chapter 1 Medinan Scholars on the Move: Professional Mobility at the Umayyad Court /
  • Mehmetcan Akpınar
  • Chapter 2 Professional Mobility and Social Capital: A Note on the muḥaddithāt in Kitāb Tārīkh Baghdād /
  • Nadia Maria El Cheikh
  • Chapter 3 The Aqīt Household: Professional Mobility of a Berber Learned Elite in Premodern West Africa /
  • Marta G. Novo
  • Chapter 4 The Professional Mobility of Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār between the Quest for Knowledge and the Confluence with Power /
  • Amal Belkamel
  • Chapter 5 Mobility and Versatility of the ʿulamāʾ in the Mamluk Period: The Case of Ibn Taymiyya /
  • Mehdi Berriah
  • Chapter 6 Mobility among the Andalusī quḍāt : Social Advancement and Spatial Displacement in a Professional Context /
  • Adday Hernández López
  • Chapter 7 Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī's Mobility and the Saljūq's Project of Sunnī Political Unity /
  • M. Syifa Amin Widigdo
  • Chapter 8 Iran's State Literature under Afghan Rule (1722-1729) /
  • M.A.H. Parsa
  • Chapter 9 Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa /
  • Mohamad El-Merheb
  • Index.