Families, Authority, and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East

Edited by Christoph U. Werner Edited by Maria Szuppe Edited by Nicolas Michel Edited by Albrecht Fuess

Book cover: Families, Authority, and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East

Extent: 334, 334 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Series: Miroir de l'Orient Musulman

Series volume number: 10

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2021)

ISBN: 9782503592893

Price: $87.00

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This volume brings together innovative contributions on the history and nature of families in the early modern Middle East, covering Central Asia, Iran, Ottoman Turkey and the Arab World from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century and beyond. It argues the importance of connecting the key concept of family in its widest possible meaning, whether descent group, lineage, household or dynasty, with the notion of transmission of knowledge, authority, status and power, and develops this idea through a pluridisciplinary and cross-regional approach. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish as well as art and material culture, the individual articles detail processes and dynamics of transmission, thus initiating a comparative dialogue.

  • Edited by Christoph U. Werner
  • Edited by Maria Szuppe
  • Edited by Nicolas Michel
  • Edited by Albrecht Fuess