Jonathan P Berkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1298966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan P Berkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkey |
| SIGNATURE | BERKEY J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6144-215X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Said Amir Arjomand. Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam
Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Journal Article Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Get access Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Cloth $32.95. Jonathan Berkey Jonathan Berkey Davidson College, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histo…
Christian Martyrs Under Islam
Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World, by Christian C. Sahner Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World, by Christian C. Sahner (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2018; pp. xxi + 335. £30). Jonathan P Berkey Jonathan P Berkey Davidson College, Davidson, NC [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English…
Eve Krakowski. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt
Aziz al-Azmeh. The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity
No field of Islamic history has changed more over the last three decades than the study of early Islam. Two major trends have dominated the field. One is the realization of many historians that the standard narrative of the earliest years of Islam, a narrative derived from the canonical Muslim sources, is highly problematic and in need of revision. The use of alternative sources (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and others) as well as the growing body o…
The Promise and Pitfalls of Medieval Islamic Social History
When I was in graduate school, in the 1980s, one frequently heard complaints about the comparatively unsophisticated nature of the historiography of the medieval Middle East. There was considerable envy of historians in fields like early modern European history, who pushed broader disciplinary limits and whose works were read not just for content but also for historiographical and theoretical inspiration. There were some in our own corner of the …
Women and Gender in Islamic Traditions
Gender was a critical factor in the Islamic tradition, especially in its law. That law was shaped by the Qur'an, the practice of Muhammad and his companions as known through hadith, the status of women in Arabia at the rise of Islam, but even more by the customs and attitudes of people living in those regions outside Arabia conquered by the early Muslim Arabs. From them, Muslims adopted practices segregating and secluding women. These practices a…
Early Islamic Legal Theory
120 Book Reviews / Islamic Law and Society 18 (2011) 116-130 Early Islamic Legal eory: e Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī . By Joseph E. Lowry. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiv + 443. ISBN 978 90 04 16360 7. $191.00. For years after their publication, the pioneering works of Joseph Schacht, e Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence (1950) and An Introduction to Islamic Law (1964), provided the template for the dominant scholarly understanding o…
Audience and Authority in Medieval Islam
This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late medieval and early modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public fig…
Tillier Mathieu, Vies des cadis de Misr 237/851-366/976, Cairo
Quels que soient la période ou le sujet, l'historien de l'Égypte islamique de l'époque pré-moderne doit utiliser les ouvrages d'Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalânî (m. 852/1449). Juriste, traditionniste, et historien, Ibn Hajar était peut-être le plus important intellectuel égyptien à la fin du Moyen Âge. De son vivant, son renom dépend principalement de sa réputation comme traditionniste - comme l'auteur, par exemple, du commentaire définitif sur le Sahîh d'…
The Muḥtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks
The Formation of Islam
Part I. The Near East before Islam: 1. Introduction 2. The religions of late antiquity 3. Arabia before Islam 4. The early seventh century Part II. The Emergence of Islam, 600-750: 5. Approaches and problems 6. The origins of the Muslim community 7. Early Islam in the Near East 8. The Umayyad period 9. The beginnings of sectarianism 10. The non-Muslims of early Islam 11. The 'Abbasid revolution Part III. The Consolidation of Islam, 750-1000: 12. …
The Formation of Islam. Religion and Society in the near East, 600-1800
Culture and society during the late Middle Ages
As his name indicates, Abū Hāmid al–Qudsī, an unprepossessing scholar of the fifteenth century, was a native of Jerusalem. In his youth, however, he moved to Egypt, where he studied with many of the leading traditionists and jurists of his day. Overwhelmed by the splendors of his adopted country, he wrote a treatise extolling its virtues and, in particular, comparing it favorably with his native Syria. Such compositions, celebrating the "wonders"…
Islamic Egypt 640-1517
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the Arab conquest to the present day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural history of the world's oldest state, summarizing the debates and providing insight into controversies. As Egypt reclaims a leading role in the Islamic, Arab and Afro-Asian worlds, the project sta…
Circumcision Circumscribed
In a famous passage in his Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians , E. W. Lane described the ceremonies commonly held to celebrate the circumcision of a young boy in 19th-century Cairo. Family and friends of the boy, his schoolteacher, the barber who performed the operation and his assistant, musicians, and other retainers all participated in a celebration of an overtly public character. Dressed in fancy clothes and feted with…
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
Tradition, Innovation and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic Near East
Journal Article TRADITION, INNOVATION AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC NEAR EAST Get access Jonathan P. Berkey Jonathan P. Berkey Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 146, Issue 1, February 1995, Pages 38–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/146.1.38 Published: 01 February 1995
Children of Islam
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
The Lion of Egypt
The political background of Baybar's youth Baybar's origins and rise to power Baybars as Sultan. Appendices: Mongol influences on the Mamluk state Baybar's embassies to Berke Khan the Khutba for Berke Khan an alleged expedition against Antioch in 665/1266 the capture of Crac des Chevaliers the Battle of Albistan the cause of Baybar's death
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one depend…
Higher Learning in Islam
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one depend…
Tradition, Innovation and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic Near East
Journal Article TRADITION, INNOVATION AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC NEAR EAST Get access Jonathan P. Berkey Jonathan P. Berkey Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 146, Issue 1, February 1995, Pages 38–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/146.1.38 Published: 01 February 1995
The Formation of Islam. Religion and Society in the near East, 600-1800
Circumcision Circumscribed
In a famous passage in his Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians , E. W. Lane described the ceremonies commonly held to celebrate the circumcision of a young boy in 19th-century Cairo. Family and friends of the boy, his schoolteacher, the barber who performed the operation and his assistant, musicians, and other retainers all participated in a celebration of an overtly public character. Dressed in fancy clothes and feted with…
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
Silver Threads among the Coal
The Promise and Pitfalls of Medieval Islamic Social History
When I was in graduate school, in the 1980s, one frequently heard complaints about the comparatively unsophisticated nature of the historiography of the medieval Middle East. There was considerable envy of historians in fields like early modern European history, who pushed broader disciplinary limits and whose works were read not just for content but also for historiographical and theoretical inspiration. There were some in our own corner of the …
Silver Threads among the Coal
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one depend…
Higher Learning in Islam
The Lion of Egypt
The political background of Baybar's youth Baybar's origins and rise to power Baybars as Sultan. Appendices: Mongol influences on the Mamluk state Baybar's embassies to Berke Khan the Khutba for Berke Khan an alleged expedition against Antioch in 665/1266 the capture of Crac des Chevaliers the Battle of Albistan the cause of Baybar's death
Children of Islam
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
Tradition, Innovation and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic Near East
Journal Article TRADITION, INNOVATION AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC NEAR EAST Get access Jonathan P. Berkey Jonathan P. Berkey Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 146, Issue 1, February 1995, Pages 38–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/146.1.38 Published: 01 February 1995
Circumcision Circumscribed
In a famous passage in his Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians , E. W. Lane described the ceremonies commonly held to celebrate the circumcision of a young boy in 19th-century Cairo. Family and friends of the boy, his schoolteacher, the barber who performed the operation and his assistant, musicians, and other retainers all participated in a celebration of an overtly public character. Dressed in fancy clothes and feted with…
Culture and society during the late Middle Ages
As his name indicates, Abū Hāmid al–Qudsī, an unprepossessing scholar of the fifteenth century, was a native of Jerusalem. In his youth, however, he moved to Egypt, where he studied with many of the leading traditionists and jurists of his day. Overwhelmed by the splendors of his adopted country, he wrote a treatise extolling its virtues and, in particular, comparing it favorably with his native Syria. Such compositions, celebrating the "wonders"…
Islamic Egypt 640-1517
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the Arab conquest to the present day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural history of the world's oldest state, summarizing the debates and providing insight into controversies. As Egypt reclaims a leading role in the Islamic, Arab and Afro-Asian worlds, the project sta…
The Formation of Islam. Religion and Society in the near East, 600-1800
The Muḥtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks
The Formation of Islam
Part I. The Near East before Islam: 1. Introduction 2. The religions of late antiquity 3. Arabia before Islam 4. The early seventh century Part II. The Emergence of Islam, 600-750: 5. Approaches and problems 6. The origins of the Muslim community 7. Early Islam in the Near East 8. The Umayyad period 9. The beginnings of sectarianism 10. The non-Muslims of early Islam 11. The 'Abbasid revolution Part III. The Consolidation of Islam, 750-1000: 12. …
Tillier Mathieu, Vies des cadis de Misr 237/851-366/976, Cairo
Quels que soient la période ou le sujet, l'historien de l'Égypte islamique de l'époque pré-moderne doit utiliser les ouvrages d'Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalânî (m. 852/1449). Juriste, traditionniste, et historien, Ibn Hajar était peut-être le plus important intellectuel égyptien à la fin du Moyen Âge. De son vivant, son renom dépend principalement de sa réputation comme traditionniste - comme l'auteur, par exemple, du commentaire définitif sur le Sahîh d'…
Audience and Authority in Medieval Islam
This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late medieval and early modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public fig…
Early Islamic Legal Theory
120 Book Reviews / Islamic Law and Society 18 (2011) 116-130 Early Islamic Legal eory: e Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī . By Joseph E. Lowry. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiv + 443. ISBN 978 90 04 16360 7. $191.00. For years after their publication, the pioneering works of Joseph Schacht, e Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence (1950) and An Introduction to Islamic Law (1964), provided the template for the dominant scholarly understanding o…
Women and Gender in Islamic Traditions
Gender was a critical factor in the Islamic tradition, especially in its law. That law was shaped by the Qur'an, the practice of Muhammad and his companions as known through hadith, the status of women in Arabia at the rise of Islam, but even more by the customs and attitudes of people living in those regions outside Arabia conquered by the early Muslim Arabs. From them, Muslims adopted practices segregating and secluding women. These practices a…
The Promise and Pitfalls of Medieval Islamic Social History
When I was in graduate school, in the 1980s, one frequently heard complaints about the comparatively unsophisticated nature of the historiography of the medieval Middle East. There was considerable envy of historians in fields like early modern European history, who pushed broader disciplinary limits and whose works were read not just for content but also for historiographical and theoretical inspiration. There were some in our own corner of the …
Aziz al-Azmeh. The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity
No field of Islamic history has changed more over the last three decades than the study of early Islam. Two major trends have dominated the field. One is the realization of many historians that the standard narrative of the earliest years of Islam, a narrative derived from the canonical Muslim sources, is highly problematic and in need of revision. The use of alternative sources (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and others) as well as the growing body o…
Christian Martyrs Under Islam
Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World, by Christian C. Sahner Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World, by Christian C. Sahner (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2018; pp. xxi + 335. £30). Jonathan P Berkey Jonathan P Berkey Davidson College, Davidson, NC [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English…
Eve Krakowski. Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt
Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia
Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Journal Article Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Get access Sean W. Anthony. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Cloth $32.95. Jonathan Berkey Jonathan Berkey Davidson College, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histo…
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