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The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters - Arabic Knowledge Construction (Hardcover)
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The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters - Arabic Knowledge Construction (Hardcover)
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In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge
Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of
literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period.
Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from
the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
in 1919 as an "Age of Decay" followed by an "Awakening"
(al-nahdah). His sweeping synthesis debunks this view by carefully
documenting a "republic of letters" in the Islamic Near East and
South Asia that was vibrant and dynamic, one varying considerably
from the generally accepted image of a centuries-long period of
intellectual and literary stagnation. Al-Musawi argues that the
massive cultural production of the period was not a random
enterprise: instead, it arose due to an emerging and growing body
of readers across Islamic lands who needed compendiums, lexicons,
and commentaries to engage with scholars and writers. Scholars,
too, developed their own networks to respond to each other and to
their readers. Rather than addressing only the elite, this culture
industry supported a common readership that enlarged the creative
space and audience for prose and poetry in standard and colloquial
Arabic. Works by craftsmen, artisans, and women appeared side by
side with those by distinguished scholars and poets. Through
careful exploration of these networks, The Medieval Islamic
Republic of Letters makes use of relevant theoretical frameworks to
situate this culture in the ongoing discussion of non-Islamic and
European efforts. Thorough, theoretically rigorous, and nuanced,
al-Musawi's book is an original contribution to a range of fields
in Arabic and Islamic cultural history of the twelfth to eighteenth
centuries.
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