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Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190 1350

Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190 1350

Chamberlain, Michael
Morgan, David

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521525942
ISBN13: 9780521525947
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 27 2002
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Michael Chamberlain focuses on medieval Damascus to develop a new approach to the relationship between the society and culture of the Middle East. The author argues that historians have long imposed European strictures onto societies to which they were alien. Western concepts of legitimate order were inappropriate to medieval Muslim society where social advancement was dependent upon the production of knowledge and religious patronage, and it was the household, rather than the state agency or corporation, that held political and social power. A parallel is drawn between the learned elite and the warriors of Damascus who, through similar strategies, acquired status and power and passed them on in their households. By examining material from the Latin West, Sung China and the Sinicized empires of Inner Asia, the author addresses the nature of political power in the period.

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