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1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 399 pages)
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ISBN:
9781107337657
Content:
For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory
Content:
Part I. The Path of the Kurdish and Persian Verifying Scholars -- 1. Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration of the rational sciences -- 2. A discourse of method : the evolution of adab al-bahth -- 3. The rise of deep reading -- Part II. Saving Servants from the Yoke of Imitation -- 4. Maghrebi theologian-logicians in Egypt and the Hejaz -- 5. The condemnation of imitation (taqlid) -- 6. Al-Hasan al-Yusi and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco -- Part III. The Imams of Those Who Proclaim the Unity of Existence -- 7. The spread of mystical monism -- 8. Monist mystics and neo-Hanbali traditionalism -- 9. In defense of wahdat al-wujud
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107042964
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107617568
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Print version ISBN 9781107042964
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107337657
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