Mussulman Culture - Hardcover

Bartol'd, V.V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879914521 ISBN 13: 9780879914523

Publisher: Porcupine Press, 1977

Synopsis

The greatest impact of Islam on history has been cultural yet, this aspect of Islamic history has been neglected in comparison to political and judicial history. V.V. Bartold, the Russian historian was one of the first scholars to project Muslim culture. In this world, Bartold gave primacy to clarity and the organization of knowledge. He posits the position of Islam in world history to the position of Christianity as a cultural force in both the Roman and the eastern worlds. Bartold's Russian vantage made him a specialist on Islam in Central Asia; hence Ajam culture, Persian in the first instance, and Turco-Mongol in the second, find their proper place, with the result that the Abbasid and post-Abbasid Muslim cultures find their proper place. The Mongol invasion is not treated merely as destruction and disruption of Muslim culture, but also as a factor which affected late medieval culture. Most of the great exponents of Muslim culture, Ibn Khaldun and Avicenna are covered. Bartold concludes with remarking on the effect on his native Russia of the passing of cultural leadership from the East to the West. This monograph is remarkable for retaining its relevance and validity after almost a whole century and a host of intervening specialised works in the intervening period. This work was translated four years after the author's death by Shahid Suhrawardy, an eminent scholar in his own right, and the Foreword has been written by Sir Hassan Suhrawardy, then Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University.

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Review

An extremely thoughtful and informative analysis of Muslim culture and history. (The Muslim News)

About the Author

Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (1869-1930) also known as Wilhelm Barthold, was a Russian and Soviet historian who succeeded Wilhelm Radloff as the greatest authority in the field of Turcology. His contributions to the understanding of the medieval culture of Central Asia are particularly valuable, earning him the moniker of the "Gibbon of Turkestan". In the two volumes of his dissertation (Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion, 1898-1900), Barthold was the first to publish obscure information from the early Arab historians on Kievan Rus'. He also edited several scholarly journals of Muslim studies, and contributed extensively to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. In 1913, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Between 1918 and 1921, he was the director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography.After the Russian Revolution,

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine Press
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879914521
• ISBN 13: 9780879914523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174