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DR Mohamad El-Merheb's Outputs (3)

Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches (2021)
Book
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

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 mo... Read More about Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches.

Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa (2021)
Book Chapter
El-Merheb, M. (2021). Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa. In M. El-Merheb, & M. Berriah (Eds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches (207-230). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467637_011

This study examines the interrelatedness between professional mobility and the production of Islamic political thought. It argues that the diverse professional careers of the two Shāfiʿī-Ashʿarī jurists and Sufis, Ibn Ṭalḥa (d. 652/1254) and Ibn Ja... Read More about Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa.