Professional mobility in Islamic societies (700-1750) : : new concepts and approaches / / edited by Mohamad El-Merheb, Mehdi Berriah.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 157
• TeilnehmendeR: El Merheb, Mohamad,; Berriah, Mehdi,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 157.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

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.