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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"Im Ganzen ist der Band ein gelungener und lesenswerter Beitrag zur Forschung und bietet selbst für besonders häufig studierte Fälle, wie z.B. Ibn Taymiyya, noch neue Erkenntnisse. Dazu gehört, dass die Bewertung von Mobilität immer im Kontext der jeweiligen Gesellschaft bzw. auch von persönlichen Motiven betrachtet werden muss....In allem ist der Band jedoch sehr lesenswert und eine inspirierende Ergänzung zur bestehenden Forschung. Es ist in jedem Fall erstrebens- und lohnenswert, den von dem Band vorgezeichneten Weg weiterzuverfolgen, auszudifferenzieren und mit mehr Fallbeispielen auszutesten." -- Mohammad Gharaibeh, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in H-SozKult, 27.04. 2022“ - Mohammad Gharaibeh, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, In: H-Soz-Kult, 27.04.2022.
Table of ContentsContents 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
