Polymaths of Islam : Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia /

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"Shows that the Central Asian city of Bukhara was the pivot of a transregional zone of Perso-Islamic cultural exchange, a role that endured and even expanded under Russian imperial rule"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pickett, James, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ulama > Political aspects > Uzbekistan > Bukhoro Region.
Ulama > Uzbekistan > Bukhoro Region > 19th century.
Asia, Central > Civilization > Islamic influences.
Bukhoro Region (Uzbekistan) > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conceptualizing Religion and Culture in Turko-Persia
  • Centering Bukhara: The Reconstruction and Mythologization of a Eurasian Cosmopolis
  • Bukhara Center: Islamic Scholars as a Network of Human Exchange
  • Patricians of Bukhara: Turkic Nobility, Persianate Pedagogy, and Islamic Society
  • High Persianate Intellectuals in the Abode of Knowledge
  • Between Sharia and the Beloved: Culture and Contradiction in Persianate Sunnism
  • Opportunity from Upheaval: Scholarly Dynasties between Nadir Shah and the Bolshevik Revolution
  • The Sovereign and the Sage: The Precarious, Paradoxical Relationship between the Ulama and Temporal Power.

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