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'Ulamā' e istituzioni a Damasco all'epoca della fondazione delle madāris ahliyya (xix-xx secolo).
2017
Despite a certain western look tending to consider overall the group of 'ulamā' as "misoneist" (that is to say "hostile to any innovation"), the relationship of the 'ālim with the institutional sphere in late-Ottoman Damascus gives evidence of a more complex role from a social as well as cultural perspective which takes into account the changes introduced by modernity. The considerable impoverishment of culture - with particular regard to those institutions mainly appointed to education in an Arab-Islamic context - following the general process of reform in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire - drives many 'ulamā' to re-consider their position, through a recovery of the past, on the on…
'Ulamā' and Power: the case of al-Manīnī family in late-Ottoman Damascus.
2017
This contribution deals with the relationship between two relevant fields of the Islamic world, knowledge and power, otherwise said, ulemas and political authority, through the peculiar dynamics which tended to characterize the relationship between some renowned representatives of the former and the institutional as well as social sphere in late-Ottoman Damascus. In particular, it will focus on the analysis of data concerning members of an important branch of ulemas who lived in Damascus between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century: the Manini family.