Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches

Abstract

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.

Citation

El-Merheb, M., & Berriah, M. (Eds.). (2021). Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467637

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Publication Date: Sep 23, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 14, 2025
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
• Series Number: 157
• ISBN: 9789004467620
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467637
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004467637