Territorial transformations and mobile Islamic cultural space
Themes: Islam diversifies as merchants, sufis, texts, and warriors travel, settle, mingle, merge and domesticate all across Asia. Turko-Mongol imperial expansion fosters the mobility and diversification of Arabic and Persian cultures east of Iran and all around the Indian Ocean.
Video15a: “A little snip on the celebration of election victory by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Video16 with slides: “Territorial transformations and Islamicate cultural space: Turco-Mongol expansion.” (Slides only for videos 16-18)
Video17 with slides: “Territorial transformations and Islamicate cultural space: Western Regions.” (Slides only for videos 16-18)
Video18 with slides: “”Territorial transformations and Islamicate cultural space: Southern Regions.” (Slides only for videos 16-18)
Mongol Webinar Series: 2. Jonathan Brack: “Religious Tolerance and Interreligious Encounter in the Mongol Empire.” November 12th, 7:00-8:30PM in Shanghai.
Reading:
Johan Elverskog, “Buddhist and Muslim Interaction in Asian History,” (OREAH). (10pp)
Finbarr Barry Flood, “Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum,” The Art Bulletin , 84, 4, 2002, 641-659. (PDF online)
On Taṣawwuf in Encyclopedia of Islam. (est.5pp)
“From Mongols to Safavids,” Encyclopedia Iranica.
Randal L. Pouwels, “Ibn Battuta in Africa and Asia,” (OREAH) (12pp.)
Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion, Yale University Press, 2017, pp.328-80.
Hyunhee Park, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds : Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2012, (Ebook), Conclusion, pp. 221-232, and optional 121-221.
Reference:
Liu Xin Ru, “A Silk road Legacy: The Spread of Buddhism and Islam,” Journal of World History, 22, 1, 2011, 55-81 (PDF online)
Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban, Edited by Nile Green, Berkeley: U Cal Press, 2017, Open Access. JSTOR LINK. Chapters 1-5.
Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Post-Mongol Context of the Ottoman Adoption of a School of Law,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 55, 3, 2012, 579-602. (online PDF)
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, “Traveling Manuscripts: Understanding Pilgrimage in Central and Eastern Islamic Lands,” in Asia Inside Out III: Itinerant People, Eric Tagliacozzo, Editor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019, pp.146-178. (Ebook)
James Pickett, “The Darker Side of Mobility: Refugees, Hostages, and Political Prisoners in Persianate Asia,” in Asia Inside Out III: Itinerant People, Eric Tagliacozzo, Editor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019, pp.201-223. (Ebook)
Andre Wink, Al-Hind, the making of the Indo-Islamic world. Volume 3, Brill, 2003, (Ebook), pp.119-169.
Dionisius A. Agius, Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean, Brill, 2007. (Ebook)
Nile Green, Bombay Islam : The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915, Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Ebook).
Thomas T. Allsen, The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Bobst NK7680.A45.2019
Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali, “Sailing across Duniyāv: Sufi Ship–Body Symbolism from the Malabar Coast, South India,” South Asian Studies, August, 2018 (online PDF) 15pp.
Assignment 7. Five-Page Paper#2 Due this Week. See assignment in Week9
Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14