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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…
The Biography of the Emir 'Ali b. al-amir 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri: from Damascus to Libya (1911).
2017
In the frame of the subject proposed for this 27th UEAI Congress, I have decided to deal with the presence of maghāriba in the city of Damascus during the late 19th and the early 20th century, which is what I have been focusing for some years.1 In particular, I would like to deal with the system of relationships, contacts and mutual interactions between Maghrib and Mashriq in the late Ottoman period,2 through the biography of the Algerian Emir ʿAlī b. al-amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī, who is considered zaʿīm min zuʿamāʾ al-islām wa raʾīs min ruʾasāʾihi for the resistance that he opposed to the Italian aggression against Libya in 1911 (al-ḥarb al-ṭarābulusiyya ṣafḥa min ḥayāt al-buṭūla wa-l…
'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.