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Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia - Hardcover

Pickett, James

 
9781501750243: Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1501750240 ISBN 13: 9781501750243
Verlag: CORNELL UNIV PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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

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Verlag
CORNELL UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501750240
ISBN 13 
9781501750243
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
349
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