The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo: A History, by Paul M. Love, Jr
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- Titre
- The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo: A History, by Paul M. Love, Jr
- Créateur
- Ghazal, Amal
- Sujet
- Recension
- Résumé
- Paul Love’s second book is a history of the Ibadi community in Ottoman Cairo between the early seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Long overlooked by historians, there has been a steady increase in the scholarship on Ibadi Muslims, who constitute a numerical Muslim minority but are part and parcel of the fabric of many Muslim societies from North Africa to Oman and East Africa. Love is one of the contemporary pioneering scholars of Ibadi history whose contributions have received global recognition for immensely enriching the field with new arguments, sources and methodologies.This book adds to Love’s stature and is another valuable contribution to the field. It provides us with a transregional history of Maghribi Ibadis (North African Ibadis) who were embedded in Cairo’s social, economic and intellectual life, and of the activities of a trade agency, known as the Buffalo Agency (Wikalat al-Jamus), which they founded and ran for almost three centuries. Established in the early seventeenth century in the Tulun district of Cairo, with an endowment supporting a school and a library, it functioned as a hub for the Ibadi community in Cairo until its demise in the 1930s. Love weaves the history of the Ibadi community in Cairo around the history of the Agency as it reflected the intertwined roles of Ibadi scholars and merchants, and as it embodied the Ibadi community’s history in Ottoman Cairo.
- Est une partie de
- The English Historical Review
- Editeur
- Oxford University Press
- Couverture spatiale
- Oxford
- Date
- 2026
- pages
- ceag082
- Titre abrégé
- Engl Hist Rev
- doi
- 10.1093/ehr/ceag082
- issn
- 0013-8266
- Langue
- eng
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