Polymaths of Islam

Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia

James Pickett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2020
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5024-3 (ISBN)

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Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth.

James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone.

Through a high cultural complex that he terms the "Persian cosmopolis" or "Persianate sphere," Pickett argues that an intersection of diverse disciplines shaped geographical trajectories across and between political states. In Polymaths of Islam he paints a comprehensive, colorful, and often contradictory portrait of mosque and state in the age of empire.

James Pickett is Assistant Professor of Eurasian History at the University of Pittsburgh.

Introduction: Islamic Scholars and the Central Asian Backdrop

1. Defamiliarizing the Familiar: Conceptualizing Religion and Culture in Turko-Persia

2. Centering Bukhara: The Reconstruction and Mythologization of an Abode of Knowledge

3. Bukhara Center: Islamic Scholars as a Network of Human Exchange

4. Patricians of Bukhara: Turkic Nobility, Persianate Pedagogy, and Islamic Society

5. High Persianate Intellectuals: The Many, Many Guises of the Ulama

6. Between Sharia and the Beloved: Culture and Contradiction in Persianate Sunnism

7. Opportunity from Upheaval: Scholarly Dynasties between Nadir Shah and the Bolshevik Revolution

8. The Sovereign and the Sage: The Precarious, Paradoxical Relationship between the Ulama and Temporal Power

Conclusion: United in Eclecticism

Epilogue: Efflorescence before the Eclipse

Erscheinungsdatum	14.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	2 Halftones, black and white; 1 Charts; 4 Maps
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5017-5024-0 / 1501750240
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-5024-3 / 9781501750243
Zustand	Neuware