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Polymaths of Islam Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Title
Polymaths of Islam Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia / James Pickett.
ISBN
1501750836
9781501750830
9781501750243
9781501750250
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1 online resource
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 History
Project MUSE - 2020 Russian and East European Studies
Other formats
Online version: Pickett, James, 1983- Polymaths of Islam Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 26, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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