Sarah Bowen Savant
Biographic Data
| ID | 164666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Bowen Savant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Bowen |
| FAMILY NAME | Savant |
| SIGNATURE | SAVANT S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aga Khan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7828-5347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Letizia Osti. History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran. By Louise Marlow
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran. By Louise Marlow. 2 vols. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 344 (vol. 1), viii + 384 (vol. 2). $220, £150
Matthew Pierce. Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism
Matthew Pierce’s Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism treats with erudition the origins of a distinct Shiʿi identity in the period of the tenth to twelfth centuries, and the role that memory of the imams played in this formation. Pierce provides a clearly articulated and stimulating reading of an understudied but fascinating and historically significant body of writings that underpin this memory and identity, and simultaneou…
Tell Me Something I Don't Know!”: The Place and Politics of Digital Methods in the (Islamicate) Humanities
Debates about the value of digital methods often return to the nature of knowledge itself. Specifically, do not digital methods tell us what we intuitively already know? Or, if we do not know something yet, is it trivial or discoverable through other more traditional humanistic modes of analysis
Digitizing the Textual Heritage of the Premodern Islamicate World: Principles and Plans
The varied textual traditions of the premodern Islamicate World represent an opportunity and a problem for the Digital Humanities (DH). The opportunity lies in the sheer extent of this textual heritage: if we combine the textual output of premodern Persian and Arabic authors (not to mention Turkish and other less well-represented Islamicate languages), this body of texts constitutes arguably the largest written repository of human culture. Analyt…
Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past
The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion
How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also …
Genealogy And Knowledge In Muslim Societies Understanding The Past
This collection of nine case studies provides an understanding of genealogy in Muslim societies and highlights how ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in such societies. The volume provides a window onto Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge
Isaac as the Persian's Ishmael: Pride and the Pre-Islamic Past in Ninth and Tenth Century Islam
For many ninth and tenth-century Persian Muslims, Isaac fulfilled a role as the Persians’ Ishmael. Abraham was their grandfather just as he was the Arabs’. Claims to Isaac as the Persians’ father occurred amidst dozens of other attempts in the ninth and tenth centuries to link Persians to prophetic lines. When Persians identified Isaac as a father, there was an overwhelming concern to establish through prophetic genealogy a better place for Persi…
Digitizing the Textual Heritage of the Premodern Islamicate World: Principles and Plans
The varied textual traditions of the premodern Islamicate World represent an opportunity and a problem for the Digital Humanities (DH). The opportunity lies in the sheer extent of this textual heritage: if we combine the textual output of premodern Persian and Arabic authors (not to mention Turkish and other less well-represented Islamicate languages), this body of texts constitutes arguably the largest written repository of human culture. Analyt…
Isaac as the Persian's Ishmael: Pride and the Pre-Islamic Past in Ninth and Tenth Century Islam
For many ninth and tenth-century Persian Muslims, Isaac fulfilled a role as the Persians’ Ishmael. Abraham was their grandfather just as he was the Arabs’. Claims to Isaac as the Persians’ father occurred amidst dozens of other attempts in the ninth and tenth centuries to link Persians to prophetic lines. When Persians identified Isaac as a father, there was an overwhelming concern to establish through prophetic genealogy a better place for Persi…
The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion
How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also …
Genealogy And Knowledge In Muslim Societies Understanding The Past
This collection of nine case studies provides an understanding of genealogy in Muslim societies and highlights how ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in such societies. The volume provides a window onto Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge
Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past
Matthew Pierce. Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism
Matthew Pierce’s Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism treats with erudition the origins of a distinct Shiʿi identity in the period of the tenth to twelfth centuries, and the role that memory of the imams played in this formation. Pierce provides a clearly articulated and stimulating reading of an understudied but fascinating and historically significant body of writings that underpin this memory and identity, and simultaneou…
Tell Me Something I Don't Know!”: The Place and Politics of Digital Methods in the (Islamicate) Humanities
Debates about the value of digital methods often return to the nature of knowledge itself. Specifically, do not digital methods tell us what we intuitively already know? Or, if we do not know something yet, is it trivial or discoverable through other more traditional humanistic modes of analysis
Digitizing the Textual Heritage of the Premodern Islamicate World: Principles and Plans
The varied textual traditions of the premodern Islamicate World represent an opportunity and a problem for the Digital Humanities (DH). The opportunity lies in the sheer extent of this textual heritage: if we combine the textual output of premodern Persian and Arabic authors (not to mention Turkish and other less well-represented Islamicate languages), this body of texts constitutes arguably the largest written repository of human culture. Analyt…
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran. By Louise Marlow
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran. By Louise Marlow. 2 vols. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 344 (vol. 1), viii + 384 (vol. 2). $220, £150
Letizia Osti. History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
History (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works)