This is a pioneering book about the impact that knowledge produced in the Maghrib (Islamic North Africa and al-Andalus = Muslim Iberia) had on the rest of the Islamic world.
It presents results achieved in the Research Project "Local contexts and global dynamics: al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the Islamic East (AMOI)", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FFI2016-78878-R AEI/FEDER, UE) and directed by Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas.
The book contains 18 contributions written by senior and junior scholars from different institutions all over the world. It is divided into five sections dealing with how knowledge produced in the Maghrib was integrated in the Mashriq starting with the emergence and construction of the concept 'Maghrib' (sections 1 and 2); how travel allowed the reception in the Maghrib of knowledge produced in the Mashriq but also the transmission of locally produced knowledge outside the Maghrib, and the different ways in which such transmission took place (sections 3 and 4), and how the Maghribis who stayed or settled in the Mashriq manifested their identity (section 5).
The book will be of interest not only for those whose research concentrates on the Maghrib but more generally for those who want to understand the complex and shifting dynamics between 'centres' and 'peripheries' as regards intellectual production and circulation.
Author(s): Maribel Fierro, Mayte Penelas
Series: Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East, 40
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 574
City: Berlin
9783110713305
9783110713305
Contents
List of contributors
The Maghrib in the Mashriq. Knowledge, Travel and Identity. Introduction
Part I: Establishing Boundaries between the Maghrib and the Mashriq
Constructing the Boundary between Mashriq and Maghrib in Medieval Muslim Sources
Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī: Egypt as Part of the Maghrib
Part II: Integrating the Maghrib into Universal Islamic History
Al-Andalus in al-Mukhtaṣar fī akhbār albashar, by Abū al-Fidāʾ
Lost Somewhere in Between? On the Transmission of History from Islamic West to East in Premodern Times: The Case of the Almohad Caliph Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb and the Battle of Alarcos
Communicating a Biography: A Comparison of the Maghribi-Andalusi and Mashriqi Sources on al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ
Part III: Maghribi Success in the East
A Majorcan in Baghdad. Al-Ḥumaydī’s Jamʿ bayn al-Ṣaḥīḥayn and Its Reception in the Mashriq
The Impact of Maghribi Ḥadīth Commentaries on the Mashriq
Andalusi Scholars on Qurʾānic Readings in the Islamic East: The Case of Abū al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī (538–590 H/1143–1194 CE)
On the Success of Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s al-Mughrib in the Islamic East
A Successful Andalusi muwashshaḥa: ʿUbāda b. Māʾ al-Samāʾ’s Man walī
Part IV: Pathways of Reception from the Maghrib to the Mashriq
Andalusi Romance Terms in Kitāb al-Simāt fī asmāʾ al-nabāt, by al-Suwaydī of Damascus (d. 690 H/1291 CE)
The Influence of Andalusi Ṣūfism on the Central Islamicate World: Ibn Sabʿīn’s son and his Kitāb al-Sulūk fī ṭarīq al-qawm
Isnād of Ibn Khaldūn: Maghribi Tradition of Knowledge in Mamlūk Cairo
Mālikī Jurists from the Maghrib and al- Andalus in Post-Fāṭimid Egypt
Traces of the Medieval Islamic West in Modern East Africa: Andalusi and Maghribi Works in the Horn of Africa
Part V: Remaining Maghribi while in the Mashriq
Vehicles of Cultural Identity: Some Thoughts on Maghribi Scripts and Manuscripts in the Mashriq
A Mamlūk-Andalusi Holograph Manuscript of the Former Marīnid Chancellor Muḥammad Ibn Ḥizb Allāh al-Wādī Āshī (d. 788 H/1386 CE)
Writing the Biography of Ibn Khaldūn
Index of Names and Places
