Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies

Uriel Simonsohn is Associate Professor at the University of Haifa. His books include A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is also co-editor and author of several publications focusing on inter-religious ties and encounters in the early and medieval Islamic periods. Luke Yarbrough is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. His books include Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt (New York University Press, 2016).

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsNote on the ContributorsIntroduction: Towards a Theory of Cultural Brokerage in Islamic SocietiesUriel Simonsohn and Luke Yarbrough‘Those Who Follow the Guidance’: Cross-Cultural Junctures in Early Islamic Documentary ConventionsEugenio Garosi Christians Facing the Rise of Islam in the Levant: Places of Worship, Building Materials and Figural ImagesMattia Guidetti Transcultural Taste: Brokers of the Arab CuisineLimor Yungman Moving beyond Post-Colonial Approaches: Grammar as an Item of Cultural Brokerage between Byzantium and the Islamic World (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries)Maria Mavroudi The Whirlpool at Work: Divine Attributes in a Polemical MilieuSarah Stroumsa The Arabic Translation of the Ghazālian Naṣīḥat al-mulūk: A Case Study in Intra-Cultural BrokerageLouise Marlow ‘The Abode of Afrāsiyāb’: Muslim Cultural Brokers in Mongol QaraqorumMichal Biran Chinese Medicine as Tajriba in Medieval Iran: On Cultural Brokerage, Translation and EmpireJonathan Brack Cultural Brokers between Persianate and Arab Islam: ʿAjamī-Ḥanafī Immigrants in the Mamlūk SultanateOr Amir The Cultural Brokerage of Nanjing’s Muslim Scholars and the Formation of Islamic Society in Premodern ChinaHua Tao Trailing Clouds of Vagueness: On Cultural Transfers between Anthropology and HistoryDionigi Albera Cultural Brokerage: Macro-historical Fluctuations of a Communicative InfrastructureDaniel G. KönigIndex