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Author Pickett, James, 1983- author.

Title Polymaths of Islam power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia / James Pickett.

Publication Info. Ithaca Cornell University Press 2020.
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Conceptualizing Religion and Culture in Turko-Persia -- Centering Bukhara: The Reconstruction and Mythologization of a Eurasian Cosmopolis -- Bukhara Center: Islamic Scholars as a Network of Human Exchange -- Patricians of Bukhara: Turkic Nobility, Persianate Pedagogy, and Islamic Society -- High Persianate Intellectuals in the Abode of Knowledge -- Between Sharia and the Beloved: Culture and Contradiction in Persianate Sunnism -- Opportunity from Upheaval: Scholarly Dynasties between Nadir Shah and the Bolshevik Revolution -- The Sovereign and the Sage: The Precarious, Paradoxical Relationship between the Ulama and Temporal Power
Summary "Shows that the Central Asian city of Bukhara was the pivot of a transregional zone of Perso-Islamic cultural exchange, a role that endured and even expanded under Russian imperial rule"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Ulama -- Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro Region -- 19th century.
Ulama.
Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro Region.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Ulama -- Political aspects -- Uzbekistan -- Bukhoro Region.
Uzbekistan.
Bukhoro Region (Uzbekistan) -- History -- 19th century.
Asia, Central -- Civilization -- Islamic influences.
Central Asia.
Civilization.
RELIGION / Islam / History.
Civilization -- Islamic influences.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version Pickett, James, 1983- Polymaths of Islam Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501750243 (DLC) 2020000455 (OCoLC)1128699962
ISBN 9781501750250 electronic book
1501750836 electronic book
1501750259 electronic book
9781501750830 electronic book
9781501750243 hardcover
1501750240 hardcover