Knowledge transfer by Ahmad Khan
by Adam Walker آدم وا(ل)كر, Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Ahmad Khan, Beatrice Gruendler, Massimo Campanini, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Godefroid de Callatay, Konrad Hirschler, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Marcus Milwright, Delfina Serrano, and Manolis Ulbricht Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series Islam... more Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series Islamic History and Thought. The series will provide a platform for scholarly research on any geographic area within the expansive Islamic world, stretching from the Mediterranean to China, and dated to any period from the eve of Islam until the early modern era.
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Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy: The Making of Sunnism, 2023
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This book explores how the classical Islamic tradition has been reshaped in the modern Islamic wo... more This book explores how the classical Islamic tradition has been reshaped in the modern Islamic world. Elisabeth Kendall & Ahmad Khan draw together leading experts to bring clarity to modern Islamic trends and debates by placing them in their historical contexts. This book calls for a new approach to modern Islamic and Middle Eastern studies based on a deep understanding of the role of the classical Islamic heritage. You can read the book's introduction for free here. The book can be purchased at: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reclaiming-islamic-tradition.html
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Khan, Ahmad. “Islamic Tradition in an Age of Print: Editing, Printing and Publishing the Classical Heritage.” Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage, edited by Ahmad Khan and Elisabeth Kendall, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2016, pp. 52–99., 2016
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Journal of Islamic Studies, Published by Oxford University Press, 2020
This article documents the existence of a vibrant republic of letters stretching from Cairo to Ka... more This article documents the existence of a vibrant republic of letters stretching from Cairo to Karachi in the middle of the twentieth century. On the basis of private letters, memoirs, and modern editions of classical texts, this article recreates the scholarly and personal commitments of a new class of professional editors (muḥaqqiqūn). These editors were responsible for the emergence of some of the most influential publishing houses in the Islamic world, and their contribution to the production and circulation of pre-modern texts has had a profound impact on the intellectual development of Islam in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They believed that cultivating a republic of letters was necessary because it served the world of learning and scholarship. In this way was fashioned a virtual community, separated by national and political borders, but united by visions of history and a shared sense of moral and intellectual duty.
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This study uses prosopographies pertaining to political elites from Khurasan in order to examine ... more This study uses prosopographies pertaining to political elites from Khurasan in order to examine patterns of social mobility, professional circulation , and structures of imperial rule in the Abbasid Empire during the 8th-9th centuries. It suggests that the early Abbasid Empire was dominated by informal patterns of rule that depended disproportionately on personal retainers and elite gubernatorial and military families to maintain structures of an otherwise bureaucratic centralized empire.
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Der Islam, 2021
Arezou Azad has produced a splendid, focused, and well-written monograph on a text that has attra... more Arezou Azad has produced a splendid, focused, and well-written monograph on a text that has attracted little attention beyond a small coterie of Iranologists. Faḍāʾil-i Balkh is one of a number of city-histories written prior to the Mongol invasions in Khurasan. It was published in 1971 by the prolific historian ʿAbd al-Ḥayy Ḥabībī; but already a decade earlier in Paris, a young Ali Shariati was busy writing a doctoral dissertation on the basis of existing manuscripts of Faḍāʾil-i Balkh, culminating in a partial edition and study of the text. Though a number of scholars have made use of Faḍāʾil-i Balkh for the history of Sufism, Islamic law, and religious history, Azad's book is by far the most substantial treatment of the text. The history and significance of Faḍāʾil-i Balkh is documented in three large chapters. The first studies some elementary issues concerning the text. Azad's discussion is welcome and valuable given a number of uncertainties surrounding Faḍāʾil-i Balkh. It was originally written in Arabic, perhaps around the year 1214, and we know little about the text's author other than what can be construed from internal evidence in Faḍāʾil-i Balkh. Now, the Arabic original has not survived, and the edition we have today is a Persian adaptation of Faḍāʾil-i Balkh composed by ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī in the year 1278. The rest of the chapter contains a very competent sketch of the textual landscape in which Faḍāʾil-i Balkh emerged. Azad explains that Faḍāʾil-i Balkh relies on five major genres of writing: ṭabaqāt; faḍāʾil, legal works, Sufi writings and biographical dictionaries, and poetry. She furnishes a precise and technical account of the frequency with which Faḍāʾil-i Balkh cites different texts belonging to each of these genres, noting along the way a number of other texts that don't fall so neatly into one of the five categories. The chapter closes with a sensitive essay ("how to 'read' the message") on the composite nature of Faḍāʾil-i Balkh and its sources, prompting readers to consider how such texts should be read and for what kind of audience it was intended. Chapter Two presents the major framing of Azad's book. Faḍāʾil-i Balkh is, for Azad, a book about the city's sacred landscape. It exhibits a conception of sanctity that is interwoven into the diverse religious and architectural environment of Balkh, and Azad spends a great deal of effort documenting the continuous and evolving legacy of Balkh's Buddhist sites and memories. The subject
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