Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia

Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501750240
• ISBN13: 9781501750243
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher