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[Parution] M. El-Merheb, M. Berriah (éds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches, Brill, août 2021

 

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

Biographical notes

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, furūsiyya, 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.

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Enki Baptiste

Postdoctorant en histoire médiévale et en islamologie (Université Lumière Lyon 2 - CIHAM UMR 5648), chercheur associé au CEFREPA USR 3141

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Enki Baptiste (18 août 2021). [Parution] M. El-Merheb, M. Berriah (éds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches, Brill, août 2021. Doc-Ciham. Consulté le 15 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/nu72


Enki Baptiste

Postdoctorant en histoire médiévale et en islamologie (Université Lumière Lyon 2 - CIHAM UMR 5648), chercheur associé au CEFREPA USR 3141

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