Christian Mauder
Biographic Data
| ID | 6004637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Mauder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauder |
| SIGNATURE | MAUDER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5898-3060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Religious Cultures of Premodern Islamicate Courts in Transregional Perspective
The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam
Research into Islamic intellectual history in general and the history of Islamic philosophy in particular has long been marred by narratives according to which the “fanaticism” and “narrow-mindedness” of religious scholars such as Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111 CE) brought an end to the once-blossoming tradition of Islamic philosophy. According to these narratives of decline, followers of Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), arguably the greatest Muslim philosophe…
The Transmission of Canonized Islamic Legal Knowledge
Journal Article The Transmission of Canonized Islamic Legal Knowledge: Practices, Genres, and Institutions Get access Eirik Hovden, Eirik Hovden Eirik Hovden, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Bergen 5020, Norway. Tel: + 47 55 58 23 40. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christian Mauder Christian Mauder Christian Mauder, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of I…
Playing with the Canon
The article investigates the history of the genre of Ḥanafī legal riddles (alghāz fiqhiyya) during the Mamluk period (648/1250–923/1517). It argues that legal riddles did not constitute ‘useless’ knowledge as earlier scholarship on Islamicate learned riddles had assumed. In contrast, the article shows that the Ḥanafī texts under investigation fulfilled important functions in the transmission of canonized legal scholarship, the performance of madh…
Does a Mamluk Sultan Hold Religious Authority? Quranic Exegesis and ḥadīṯ Scholarship in Late Mamluk Courtly maǧālis
The article critically reexamines the notion of Mamluk rulers being uninterested in religious affairs and the authority a supreme religious status could bestow. It shows that, with the late Mamluk ruler Qāniṣawh al-Ġawrī (r. 906/1501–922/1516), at least one Mamluk sultan laid claim to religious authority through his participation in courtly processes of knowledge production and transmission in his learned maǧālis . These efforts culminated in the…
The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Courts of the Middle and Early Modern Periods
The ʿAbbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261–1517
As one of the most important concepts in Islamic political history and thought, the caliphate has received ample attention in recent years. Thanks to Hugh Kennedy’s The Caliphate, we have at our disposal an up-to-date and easily accessible general history of the caliphate,1 while Hüseyin Yılmaz examined the transformation of the concept in Ottoman political thought in his Caliphate Redefined.2 Mona Hassan’s Longing for the Lost Caliphate offered …
Thomas Bauer, Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab
Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt
People identified as Persians constituted one of the most prominent groups of nonlocal inhabitants in Mamluk Egypt, and earlier scholarship has paid considerable attention to Egyptian-Persian relations. Nevertheless, the determining factors that made someone Persian in Mamluk Egyptian contexts remain poorly understood. Accounts of the majālis, or learned salons, convened by the penultimate Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516) o…
Roads to paradise
Herrschaftsbegründung durch Handlung
At the turn from the 15 th to the 16 th century, the Mamluk Sultanate experienced a period of succession conflicts when a number of Sultans came to power in rapid sequence. With the ascension of Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī to the throne in 1501, the history of the Sultanate entered into a final phase of relative tranquility. Nevertheless, the previous crisis had proven that the person of the ruler was a highly contingent element in the late Mamluk politica…
Conference
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Conference
Herrschaftsbegründung durch Handlung
At the turn from the 15 th to the 16 th century, the Mamluk Sultanate experienced a period of succession conflicts when a number of Sultans came to power in rapid sequence. With the ascension of Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī to the throne in 1501, the history of the Sultanate entered into a final phase of relative tranquility. Nevertheless, the previous crisis had proven that the person of the ruler was a highly contingent element in the late Mamluk politica…
Roads to paradise
Thomas Bauer, Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab
Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt
People identified as Persians constituted one of the most prominent groups of nonlocal inhabitants in Mamluk Egypt, and earlier scholarship has paid considerable attention to Egyptian-Persian relations. Nevertheless, the determining factors that made someone Persian in Mamluk Egyptian contexts remain poorly understood. Accounts of the majālis, or learned salons, convened by the penultimate Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516) o…
Does a Mamluk Sultan Hold Religious Authority? Quranic Exegesis and ḥadīṯ Scholarship in Late Mamluk Courtly maǧālis
The article critically reexamines the notion of Mamluk rulers being uninterested in religious affairs and the authority a supreme religious status could bestow. It shows that, with the late Mamluk ruler Qāniṣawh al-Ġawrī (r. 906/1501–922/1516), at least one Mamluk sultan laid claim to religious authority through his participation in courtly processes of knowledge production and transmission in his learned maǧālis . These efforts culminated in the…
The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Courts of the Middle and Early Modern Periods
The ʿAbbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261–1517
As one of the most important concepts in Islamic political history and thought, the caliphate has received ample attention in recent years. Thanks to Hugh Kennedy’s The Caliphate, we have at our disposal an up-to-date and easily accessible general history of the caliphate,1 while Hüseyin Yılmaz examined the transformation of the concept in Ottoman political thought in his Caliphate Redefined.2 Mona Hassan’s Longing for the Lost Caliphate offered …
The Transmission of Canonized Islamic Legal Knowledge
Journal Article The Transmission of Canonized Islamic Legal Knowledge: Practices, Genres, and Institutions Get access Eirik Hovden, Eirik Hovden Eirik Hovden, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Bergen 5020, Norway. Tel: + 47 55 58 23 40. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christian Mauder Christian Mauder Christian Mauder, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of I…
Playing with the Canon
The article investigates the history of the genre of Ḥanafī legal riddles (alghāz fiqhiyya) during the Mamluk period (648/1250–923/1517). It argues that legal riddles did not constitute ‘useless’ knowledge as earlier scholarship on Islamicate learned riddles had assumed. In contrast, the article shows that the Ḥanafī texts under investigation fulfilled important functions in the transmission of canonized legal scholarship, the performance of madh…
The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam
Research into Islamic intellectual history in general and the history of Islamic philosophy in particular has long been marred by narratives according to which the “fanaticism” and “narrow-mindedness” of religious scholars such as Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111 CE) brought an end to the once-blossoming tradition of Islamic philosophy. According to these narratives of decline, followers of Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), arguably the greatest Muslim philosophe…
The Religious Cultures of Premodern Islamicate Courts in Transregional Perspective
Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Islam (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Mamluk (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (4 works)