The Influence of Human Mobility in Muslim Societies

by Kuroki

• ISBN13: 9780710308023
• ISBN10: 0710308027
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume explores various aspects of human mobility--both spatial and social--in Muslim societies from the earliest Islamic period to present times. In general, high mobility has been observed among Muslims throughout their history. The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the five religious duties, and many Muslim travellers, such as Ibn Battuta, voyaged through vast areas of the known world. However, the social and political impact of their movements or their being forced to move has rarely been analyzed from a multi-disciplinary approach. Researchers specializing in history, literature, anthropology, sociology and politics from eight countries contributed their insights on the mobility of both Muslims and non-Muslims in this multi-faceted volume, which will shed new light on the meaning of mobility and the movement of human beings in the even more globalized world of today.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Part one: Human Mobility observed in Historical Aspects
A Preliminary Study on the Diffusion of the Nigãba al-Tálibiyin: Towards an Understanding of the Early Dispersal of Sayyids
MORIMOTO Kazuo	3	(40)
Turks in the Political and Military Life of Eleventh-Century Egypt and Syria
Yaacov LEV	43	(20)
Influence of Human Mobility during the Crusades As Seen in the Writings of Ibn al-Athir, 555-630 A.H./1160-1233 A.D.
Taef Kamal ELAZHARI	63	(20)
Blacks in Ifrigiya in the Middle Ages
Ibrahim JADLA	83	(18)
Part Two: Information of Muslims and Non-Muslims in Mobility
Human Mobility and Transmission of Information in, the Ottoman Empire from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
Stefka PARVEVA	101	(10)
Mobility of Non-Muslims in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Aleppo
KUROKI Hidemitsu	111	(40)
Friction and Rivalry over Pious Mobility: British Colonial Management of the Hajj and Reaction to It by Indian Muslims, 1870-1920
OISHI Takashi	151	(28)
Part Three: Identity and Political Dynamism Influenced by Human Mobility
The Sudanese Diaspora in Politics: Félix Dar Fur, Dusé Muhammad 'Ali, and 'Ali 'Abd al-Lauf
KURITA Yoshiko	179	(16)
Remaining Oneself Beyond the Borders: Identity and Travel in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Division of the World
Alain ROUSSILLON	195	(56)
Urbanisation, Structural Changes and the Rise of the Islamist Movement in Turkey
Nilufer NARLI	251	(38)
Part Four: Beyond the Borders of Human and Information Space
Dynamics of Change in the Medical Sector in the Islamic World: Toward the Redefinition of judud
Lilia LABIDI	289	(24)
Blurred Boundaries: New Media and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Muslim Societies
Dale F. EICKELMAN	313