Monday Majlis: Sufi Movements and Contestable Periodization Schemes
The rise and the spread of Sufi movements in tandem with the fall of the Abbasids, a protracted process that began in the mid-9th century and continued unabated after the Mongol invasions and well beyond, is a commonplace in conventional narratives of premodern Islamic history. This long term and multi-faceted process is to some extent overshadowed by a stultifying use of periodization as a heuristic tidying up device for delineating and clarifying the transition from the pre-modern to the present. In this version of the story, it is the encounter with Europe and the impact of the West that occupy the headlines while long-term transmutations that may have occurred in the region over long centuries are relegated to the footnotes.
| A Centre for the Study of Islam seminar | |
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| Date | 22 January 2024 |
| Time | 17:00 to 18:30 |
| Registration information | Register please on this link: https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcu6qrzgrGt0d9hS1QBUjvIFWUybj78Y_ |
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Abstract
Neguin Yavari studied medieval history at Columbia University. Her book on the rhetoric of advice in medieval political thought, Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2014), is a comparative study of mirrors for princes from the European and Islamic worlds. Mirrors for princes across political and spatial divides is the subject of her co-edited volume, Global Medieval: Mirrors for Princes Reconsidered (Harvard University Press, 2015). Her latest book, entitled The Future of Iran's Past: Nizam al-Mulk Remembered (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2018), is a biography of Nizam al-Mulk, the prominent eleventh-century vizier.
https://www.multiple-secularities.de/team/prof-neguin-yavari-phd/ https://independent.academia.edu/NeguinYavari
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