Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350

by Michael Chamberlain

Michael Chamberlain focuses on medieval Damascus to develop a new approach to the relationship between the society and culture of the Middle East. The author argues that historians have long imposed European strictures onto societies to which they were alien. Western concepts of legitimate order were inappropriate to medieval Muslim society where social advancement was dependent upon the production of knowledge and religious patronage, and it was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521525942
• ISBN13: 9780521525947
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"