Reading tarājim with Bourdieu: prosopographical traces of historical change in the South Asian migration to the late medieval Hijaz

This article presents a new analytical reading of one of the most popular genres in medieval Arabic historiography, biographical dictionaries, in order to address broader questions of historical change in transregional movements and scholarly group cultures. It builds on recent scholarship that focu...

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Main Author: Bahl, Christopher D. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2017
In: Der Islam
Year: 2017, Volume: 94, Issue: 1, Pages: 234-275
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