Cultural brokerage in premodern Islamic societies /
"When we speak of 'Islamic societies' or 'Islamic civilisation', we often imply that there is something distinctive about cultures wherever Islam is prominent. Yet historians have rarely examined in detail how these cultures that we call 'Islamic' were formed in re...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press Ltd,
[2026]
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Towards a theory of cultural brokerage in Islamic societies / Uriel Simonsohn, Luke Yarbrough
- 'Those who follow the guidance' : cross-cultural junctures in early Islamic documentary conventions / Eugenio Garosi
- Christians facing the rise of Islam in the Levant : places of worship, building materials and figural images / Mattia Guidetti
- Transcultural taste : brokers of the Arab cuisine / Limor Yungman
- Moving beyond post-colonial approaches : grammar as an item of cultural brokerage between Byzantium and the Islamic world (seventh to eleventh centuries) / Maria Mavroudi
- The whirlpool at work : divine attributes in a polemical milieu / Sarah Stroumsa
- The Arabic translation of the Ghazālian Naṣīḥat al-mulūk : a case study in intra-cultural brokerage / Louise Marlow
- 'The abode of Afrāsiyāb' : Muslim cultural brokers in Mongol Qaraqorum / Michal Biran
- Chinese medicine as Tajriba in medieval Iran : on cultural brokerage, translation and empire / Jonathan Brack
- Cultural brokers between Persianate and Arab Islam : ʻAjamī-Ḥanafī immigrants in the Mamlūk sultanate / Or Amir
- The cultural brokerage of Nanjing's Muslim scholars and the formation of Islamic society in premodern China / Hua Tao
- Trailing clouds of vagueness : on cultural transfers between anthropology and history / Dionigi Albera
- Cultural brokerage : macro-historical fluctuations of a communicative infrastructure / Daniel G. König.