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Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century: scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2015Description: xvi, 399 pISBN:
  • 9781107042964
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.015 E5I8
Summary: For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory. • The first in-depth exploration of the intellectual concerns and trends among the scholars (ulema) of the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb in the seventeenth century • Challenges received notions about intellectual stagnation in the period • Gives a pioneering overview of major intellectual currents in the Islamic world on the eve of modernity (http://www.cambridge.org/tn/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/islamic-intellectual-history-seventeenth-century-scholarly-currents-ottoman-empire-and-maghreb?format=HB)
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Table of Contents:


PART I. 'THE PATH OF THE KURDISH AND PERSIAN VERIFYING SCHOLARS'


1. Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration of the rational sciences

2. A discourse of method: the evolution of ādāb al-bahth

3. The rise of 'deep reading'


PART II. 'SAVING SERVANTS FROM THE YOKE OF IMITATION'


4. Maghrebi 'theologian-logicians' in Egypt and the Hejaz

5. The condemnation of 'imitation' (taqlīd)

6. Al-Hasan al-Yūsī and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco


PART III. 'THE IMAMS OF THOSE WHO PROCLAIM THE UNITY OF EXISTENCE'


7. The spread of mystical monism

8. Monist mystics and neo-Hanbalī traditionalism

9. In defense of wahdat al-wujūd.


For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory.

• The first in-depth exploration of the intellectual concerns and trends among the scholars (ulema) of the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb in the seventeenth century
• Challenges received notions about intellectual stagnation in the period
• Gives a pioneering overview of major intellectual currents in the Islamic world on the eve of modernity



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