Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies : Approaches in Intellectual History

• Autore: Morimoto Kazuo
• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : Gerlach Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 pages)
• Disciplina: 297
• Soggetto topico: Muslims - Intellectual life
• Altri autori: RizviSajjad
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Series Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction: Diversifying the Intellectual History of Islam and Muslim Cultures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PHILOSOPHY -- 1 Three Portraits of a Philosopher in Islamic Cultures -- A Decolonial Strategy -- How to Study Islamic Texts in 'Philosophy' -- Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Bābā of Timbuktu: Legal Activist as Philosopher -- Umm Salama Bēgum Nayrīzī: Lover and Mystic as Philosopher -- ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Niẓām al-Din [Baḥr al-ʿulūm]: Sunni Metaphysician and Court Philosopher -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Philosophy for Politics: Ancient Greek Philosophy Echoed in Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ's Writings -- Introduction -- Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and the Political Advice Texts Attributed to Him -- Al-Manṭiq -- Kalīla wa-Dimna -- The Kitāb al-Ādāb al-kabīr -- The Kitāb al-Adab al-ṣaghīr -- Political Epistles: The Risāla fī l-ṣaḥāba and al-Yatīma -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations for Ibn Muqaffaʿs Works -- Ibn Muqaffaʿ's Oeuvre -- Kitāb al-Ādāb al-kabīr -- Kitāb al-Adab al-ṣaghīr -- Kalīla wa-Dimna -- The Letter of Tansar -- Al-Manṭiq -- Risāla fī l-ṣaḥāba -- Al-Yatīma -- Other Sources and Studies -- 3 The Sorcerer Scholar: Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī between Grammar and Grimoire -- Introduction -- Sakkākī's Reputation -- Powerful Illusions -- The Magical Miftāḥ -- Those Who Know and Those Who Don't -- The Sun Is a Pot of Gold -- Poetry on Purpose -- A Powerful Muse -- Sakkākī the Man -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Al-Sakkākī's Works -- Other Sources and Studies -- 4 Knowledge for All: Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī (d. before 1228) on Philosophical Writing -- Introduction -- Knowledge (ʿilm) and Philosophy (ḥikma) -- The Duty to Write -- Who Are Muqallids?: The Ġazālian Background of al-Kaššī's Notion of Taqlīd. ; Al-Kaššī's Art of Writing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- 5 Cancelling the Apocalypse: Refracted Anticipation for the Awaited Mahdī -- Introduction -- Sayyid Muḥammad and Kalām al-mahdī -- A Paradox in the Manifestation of the Hidden Imām as the Awaited Mahdī -- Immortality of the Eleven Imāms -- Impossibility of the Hidden Imām's Manifestation -- Modelling the Deputyship: The Theory of the Veil -- Justification of the Deputyship: God's Ordeal and a "Weak" Mahdī -- God's Ordeal -- Mahdī of the Community -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Kalām al-mahdī -- Qurʾan -- Other Sources and Studies -- SCHOLARLY PRODUCTION -- 6 Didactic Discourse and Sarcastic Expressions in the Context of Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī's Criticism -- Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī and His Literary Critical Position -- Pedagogical and Didactic Discourse in al-Ḥathth ʿalā ṭalab al-ʿilm, al-Ṣināʿatayn and Faḍl al-ʿaṭāʾ -- The Sarcastic Expressions That Abū Hilāl Used in His Critiques and How He Employed Them -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Writing the Imams' Virtues under the Interconfessional Policy of al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh -- Introduction -- Ibn al-Biṭrīq and the ʿUmda -- Compilation of the ʿUmda under al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh -- Exclusive Use of Sunni Sources -- Interpretation of the Ghadīr Khumm Tradition -- From ʿAlī to the Twelve Imams -- The Mustadrak and the Khaṣāʾiṣ -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- 8 A Jaʿfarid-Zaynabid Genealogy from Thirteenth-Century Egypt: ʿUrbān Uprising, Najafī Connection -- Introduction -- The Genealogy of the Thaʿlabids: A Laudatory Genealogy -- The Dedicatee: Najm al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Ḥiṣn al-Dīn Thaʿlab II -- The Author: Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Mashhadī al-Najafī, Ibn Ballūh -- Treatment of the Twelve Imams: A Sunni Representation -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography. ; 9 ʿIlm al-Siyāq and Bureaucrats in Safavid Iran -- Introduction -- History of ʿIlm al-siyāq -- Safavid Siyāq Manuals -- Ledgers and Administration -- Rūznāmača -- Tawǧīh -- Avāraǧa -- ʿIlm al-siyāq in the Social Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Ma Dexin's Criticism of Saint Veneration: "Chinese"-Flavored Islam Formed by a Conflict -- Introduction -- Ma Dexin's Argument on Sufi Masters and Its Sources -- Ma Dexin's Creative Discussion of Sufi Masters and the Oneness of Being -- Intellectual Trends in the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century -- The Chinese Islamic Tradition -- The Background of Ma Dexin's Negative Views on Sufi Masters -- Discord with the Jahriyya Order -- Jahriyya Justifications of Sufi Masters' Abilities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- THE MAKING OF THE MODERN -- 11 The Politics of the Bayʿa Ceremony in Modern Morocco -- Introduction -- Analytical Approach of This Study -- Positive Measures to Install Religious Legitimacy through the Process of Institution-Building -- Institution-Building Processes -- Religious Legitimacy Supporting Royal Authority -- Bayʿa Ceremony in Morocco -- History of the Bayʿa in Morocco -- Basic Structure of Morocco's Bayʿa Ceremony -- Analysis of the Bayʿa and Khuṭbas: The Institutionalization of Religious Rituals -- Venues of the Bayʿa Ceremony -- Topics of the King's Speeches -- The Roles of the Bayʿa Ceremony: Focusing on the Mohammed VI Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Website -- Newspapers -- 12 The Tawḥīd of the Painting of God the Mother -- Introduction -- Argument -- Qayrawān -- Paintings -- God the Mother -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13 Teaching Iranian History: Narrative Style and Messages -- Introduction -- Review of the History Textbooks -- Method of Analysis -- Analysis of the Textbooks (1): The Fight against Oppressors and the Established. ; Good versus Oppressive Rulers -- The Established versus the Deprived -- Resistance to Oppressive Rulers -- The ʿUlama's Leadership amidst Resistance -- Analysis of the Textbooks (2): The Fight for National Integration and Independence -- Integrated versus Disintegrated Iran -- Independence versus Foreign Invasion and Occupation -- Resistance to Foreign Invasion and Liberation from Foreign Domination -- The ʿUlama's Leadership in Fighting Foreign Enemies -- Analysis of the Textbooks (3): Iranians' Greatness -- Contributions to Culture and Science -- Conclusion: Narrative Style and Messages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Published Sources -- Internet Sources -- 14 Inscribing "God's Words" in Japan: Connecting the Past to the Present through the Qurʾan -- Introduction -- Translations of the Qurʾan: A Brief History -- Connecting the Past to the Present -- Reviving the Moments of the Revelation: The Koran by Toshihiko Izutsu -- Relating the Revelation to Contemporary Lives: The Holy Qurʾan by Ryoichi Mita -- Changes in the Interpretations -- Mita's Successors: Japan Muslim Association -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Postscript -- About the Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with the 'subaltern' within that. Why does religion continue to hold significance in our times? Are humans better off, adaptable, less violent, consistently unpredictable? How can we understand the course of our political history and the seeming dominance of democracy and its discontents, not least the legacies of coloniality and empire? While nationalist historiographies prevail in many contexts as well as Marxist and other approaches, the trend seems to be towards connected histories, the transnational and the global. Much of this constitutes intellectual history, which as one leading expert puts it, "seeks to restore a lost world, to recover perspectives and ideas from the ruins, to pull back the veil, and explain why the ideas resonated in the past and convinced their advocates." (Richard Whatmore) Ideas are expressive of cultures and norms, practices and dispositions, of actions and events that lie at the very core of human experience such as sovereignty and power, mind and matter, profanity and spirituality. There are noticeable differences of approach in the various chapters presented but what brings them together is a careful study of texts, not in a reductively philological manner derided quite often these days but in the way in which we recognise that texts are forms of speech acts and lie alongside other forms of self-expression that can elucidate and illuminate as well as occlude. This is the first volume in the new series Studies in Islamic Intellectual History (ISSN 2941-1491).
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies
• ISBN: 9783959941655; 395994165X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008952403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Islamic Intellectual History Series