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The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam - Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (Paperback, New edition)
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The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam - Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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Scholars, saints, and the state The eleventh and twelfth centuries
comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The
Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia,
ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of
that time. In a far-reaching analysis that combines social,
cultural, and political history, Omid Safi demonstrates how the
Saljuqs tried to create a lasting political presence by joining
forces with scholars and saints, among them a number of well-known
Sufi Muslims, who functioned under state patronage. In order to
legitimize their political power, Saljuq rulers presented
themselves as champions of what they alleged was an orthodox and
normative view of Islam. Their notion of religious orthodoxy was
constructed by administrators in state-sponsored arenas such as
madrasas and khanaqahs. Thus orthodoxy was linked to political
loyalty, and disloyalty to the state was articulated in terms of
religious heresy. Drawing on a vast reservoir of primary sources
and eschewing anachronistic terms of analysis such as nationalism,
Safi revises conventional views both of the Saljuqs as benevolent
Muslim rulers and of the Sufis as timeless, ethereal mystics. He
makes a significant contribution to understanding premodern Islam
as well as illuminating the complex relationship between power and
religious knowledge.
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