عنوان

The Persianate sphere during the age of empires Islamic scholars and networks of exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917

Number

TL48335

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Persianate sphere during the age of empires Islamic scholars and networks of exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

James Robert Pickett

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Kotkin, Stephen M.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

444

Text of Note

Committee members: Cook, Michael A.; Gross, Jo-Ann; Reynolds, Michael A.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-89885-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

Princeton University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This dissertation analyzes the social and political trajectories of Islamic scholars (ulama) as an entry point toward examining the relationship between knowledge and power within a cohesive zone of Persianate high culture. Three core insights build upon one another throughout the study: (1) The ulama were united by an extraordinarily eclectic skillset-jurisprudence, mysticism, poetry, occult sciences, medicine, inter alia-which were embodied in discrete social roles, but not separate social groups. Rather, these constituted separate activities performed by a single milieu. (2) Over the course of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, Islamic scholars deployed that skillset to mythologize Bukhara into a timeless religious and cultural center by endowing the city's geography with symbolic significance derived from sacred Islamic history and Persian literature. This in turn offered the region a cultural coherence that transcended the multitude of competing Eurasian city-states characterized by gradated and overlapping forms of sovereignty. (3) The many of the talents of the ulama were indispensable to the political-military elite, whose patronage allowed the scholars to establish family dynasties spanning centuries. Despite this mutual dependence, the ulama never ceded their moral authority to independently speak for religion.

Near Eastern Studies; History; Russian history

Subject Term

Social sciences;Bukhara;Central asia;Islam;Persianate;Transregional;Ulama

Putilin, Dimitri

Kotkin, Stephen M.

Subdivision

History

Princeton University

Call Number

1707688336; 3712819

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[Thesis]

276903

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