Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia Pickett James
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia Pickett James Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that…
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Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia Pickett James
Polymaths of Islam 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.James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone.Through 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 This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks.
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