{"product_id":"polymaths-of-islam-power-and-networks-of-knowledge-in-central-asia-hardback-9781501750243","title":"Polymaths of Islam; Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia (Hardback) 9781501750243","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolymaths of Islam\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePower and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Pickett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501750243\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 2 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 4 maps, 1 chart - 4 Maps - 1 Charts - 2 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in the implications of the Russian absorption of a cosmopolitan civilization undergoing significant structural change in its political, intellectual, and social life should keep a copy of\u003ci\u003e Polymaths of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e by their bedside. This work sets the agenda for the study of Central Asia's intellectual and social history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will remain the reference text on the subject for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e (Russian Review) \u003cp\u003e[The book is] a masterwork of scholarship. Pickett's book is a tour de force of history and cultural sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e (New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences) \u003cp\u003ePickett provides an important foundation for a future study of the gradations of prestige among less elite Islamic scholars, and their interactions with more popular religious figures.\u003c\/p\u003e (Canadian-American Slavic Studies) \u003cp\u003eJames Pickett's Polymaths of Islam is another great contribution in line with recent works of scholars on the history of Bukhara and its role in Eurasian history. The book is a great contribution to Central Asian history and will serve the needs of a diverse readership.\u003c\/p\u003e (Ab Imperio)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolymaths of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough a high cultural complex that he terms the \"Persian cosmopolis\" or \"Persianate sphere,\" Pickett argues that an intersection of diverse disciplines shaped geographical trajectories across and between political states. In \u003ci\u003ePolymaths of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e he paints a comprehensive, colorful, and often contradictory portrait of mosque and state in the age of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Islamic Scholars and the Central Asian Backdrop\u003cbr\u003e 1. Defamiliarizing the Familiar: Conceptualizing Religion and Culture in Turko-Persia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Centering Bukhara: The Reconstruction and Mythologization of an Abode of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bukhara Center: Islamic Scholars as a Network of Human Exchange\u003cbr\u003e 4. Patricians of Bukhara: Turkic Nobility, Persianate Pedagogy, and Islamic Society\u003cbr\u003e 5. High Persianate Intellectuals: The Many, Many Guises of the Ulama\u003cbr\u003e 6. Between Sharia and the Beloved: Culture and Contradiction in Persianate Sunnism\u003cbr\u003e 7. Opportunity from Upheaval: Scholarly Dynasties between Nadir Shah and the Bolshevik Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Sovereign and the Sage: The Precarious, Paradoxical Relationship between the Ulama and Temporal Power\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: United in Eclecticism\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Efflorescence before the Eclipse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653254738200,"sku":"9781501750243","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/polymaths-of-islam-power-and-networks-of-knowledge-in-central-asia-hardback-9781501750243","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}