She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. Her research focuses on Ottoman Sufi orders in the early modern period, with an emphasis on Sufi contributions to the production of medical and philological knowledge in Ottoman manuscript culture. Khoja received her doctorate degree from Harvard and is currently a Postdoctoral Associate for the Inter-Asia Connections Initiative at the MacMillan Center, Yale University.Īslıhan Gürbüzel is assistant professor of Ottoman History at McGill University.
Neelam Khoja is a transregional and transdisciplinary historian she focuses on historically marginalized communities whose networks cross imperial boundaries and national borders from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries in West and South Asia. He is the author of Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (Stanford University Press, 2017). White is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Al ghazali book series#
The episodes in this series are subject to updates and modification. "The Making of the Islamic World" is an ongoing series aimed at providing resources for the undergraduate classroom. We'll call that world "Rumi's world" after the 13th century mystic, scholar, and poet who was born in Khorasan but rose to fame in the newly conquered lands of the Seljuk Empire in Anatolia.Ĭlick here for a transcript of the episode In addition to examining the evolution of Islamic polities, we'll shed light on the rise of Sufism and how it tied the new regions of the Islamic world together. We'll discuss the works of scholars like Ibn Sina, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, and Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and their far-reaching impacts in the Islamic world and beyond. In this episode, we're exploring the Turco-Persian dynasties of the 9th-13th centuries. In the eastern portion of the Islamic world, this resulted in the rise of a number of Persian and Turkic dynasties that rather than displacing the Arabo-Islamic culture of early Islam, fused it with a Persianate tradition of statecraft, literature, and scholarship. Semi-autonomous governors throughout the Islamic world would gradually form their own dynasties. By the end of the 9th century, the Abbasid Empire could no longer exert central authority over its vast caliphate.
| The political expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid periods brought a wide range of territories into the Islamic fold.