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" The Persianate sphere during the age of empires Islamic scholars and networks of exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917 "
James Robert Pickett
Kotkin, Stephen M.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803542
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TL48335
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1707688336; 3712819
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Putilin, Dimitri
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The Persianate sphere during the age of empires Islamic scholars and networks of exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917\ James Robert PickettKotkin, Stephen M.
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Princeton University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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History
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2015
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444
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Committee members: Cook, Michael A.; Gross, Jo-Ann; Reynolds, Michael A.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-89885-9
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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, <i>inter alia</i>—which were embodied in discrete social roles, but <i>not</i> 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 <i>cultural</i> 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.
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Near Eastern Studies; History; Russian history
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Social sciences;Bukhara;Central asia;Islam;Persianate;Transregional;Ulama
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Kotkin, Stephen M.
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HistoryPrinceton University
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