The Medieval Islamicate World
During the “medieval” period, the Islamicate world encompassed a great arc stretching from al-Andalus to China. Within this arc, Muslims, Jews, and Christians, along with other diverse cultures and belief systems, established sophisticated and cosmopolitan communities, creating an environment that fostered intellectual, political, and social interaction and cultural exchanges. Such connections were key to the vibrancy, achievements, and innovations of this period, resulting in a social reality that was as complex as it was subtle.
This series seeks to explore the intersections among the cultures that comprised the medieval Islamicate world, as well as the impact of specific communities, texts, and events on the development of Islamicate cultures. By considering these relationships and exchanges, we seek to trace the connections that gave rise to the variety and sophistication so characteristic of this era.
Topics and themes considered by the series
Identity, Religion, and Law; Dress and Social Discourse; Gender and Social Roles; Trade and Cultural Exchange; Art and Architecture; Patrons, Clients, and Slaves; Social Networks and hierarchies; Spaces and Borders; European Encounters with the Islamicate world; Islamicate encounters with the Occidental world; Material cultures; Music, Music Theory and Philosophies of Music; Literature and Poetry; Translation and Linguistics; Sexualities.
Coverage
Geographical scope | Global |
Chronological scope | 7th-15th centuries CE (1st-9th centuries AH) |
Keywords | al-Andalus; medieval Islam; cultural exchange; Middle Eastern history – 7th-15th centuries |
Editorial Contact
Series Editors
Pernilla Myrne
My dissertation, Narrative, Gender and Authority in ʿAbbāsid Literature on Women, examines narrative structures in biographies on women from the ninth and tenth centuries. It deals with constructions of hierarchy and representation of women’s agency, and how they relate to genre in early Arabic literature.[email protected]
Bio and Image from: http://gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xmyrpe
Lisa Nielson
[email protected]Timothy May
Dr. Timothy May is a specialist in the Mongol Empire and nomadic empires in general. He is the author and co-author of four books and numerous other publications. He is currently Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and writing a history of the Mongol Empire.[email protected]
More information: http://ung.edu/college-of-arts-and-letters/faculty-staff-bio/timothy-may.php
Uriel Simonsohn
Uriel Simonsohn is a historian of religions and societies. His research focuses on the three monotheistic religions in the Near East and Mediterranean Basin from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages. In his book A Common Justice (2011), which deals with the lives of Rabbanite Jews and Eastern Christians in the early Islamic period, he attempts to present a more nuanced and untidy picture of what has often been depicted in modern scholarship as a social setting neatly carved along religious lines. The legal-anthropological paradigm of “legal pluralism” allows him to interpret the exhortations of Rabbanite and ecclesiastical leaders against extra-confessional litigation in the context of highly complex arrangements of social commitments. These commitments, he argues, went far beyond the confinements of religious communities.At present, he continues to explore interfaith encounters through two main research projects, one concerning the process of conversion to Islam in the early Islamic period, and the other focused on the phenomenon of religiously-mixed families. In both pursuits he seeks to cast light on the passage of peoples and ideas from one religious circle to another while describing the social context that facilitated this passage.
In the context of these persuits, he is a member of the I Core Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters,based at Ben Gurion University.
[email protected]
Andrew Peacock
Medieval and early modern Middle Eastern and Islamic history, especially the history of Iran, Anatolia, the Caucasus and Central Asia up to the seventeenth century; Arabic and Persian historiography and manuscripts; history of the Indian Ocean region.[email protected]
More information: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/andrewpeacock.html
Showing results 1-2 of 2
Filter Results OPEN +
The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634–1800
Price: £99.00
Price: $119.00
ISBN: 9781641892223
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
160 Pages
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
Price: £24.95
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781641894647
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Paperback
168 Pages

The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634–1800
Price: £99.00
Price: $119.00
ISBN: 9781641892223
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
160 Pages
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
Price: £24.95
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781641894647
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Paperback
168 Pages