Introduction: Lands and loyalties in the scholarship of medieval and early modern Islamicate history / Steve Tamari -- Constructing the realm of the Kurds (al-Mamlaka al-Akradiyya) : Kurdish in-betweenness and Mamluk ethnic engineering, and the emergence of Al-Mamlaka al-Ḥasina al-Akradiyya (1130-1340 CE) / Boris James -- Becoming Syrian : Aleppo in Ibn al-ʻAdim's Bughyat al-Talab fi Taʼrikh Halab / Zayde Antrim -- Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374 CE) and the definition of the fourteenth-century Muslim West / Alexander Elinson -- Going home : al-Andalus and exile in the seventeenth century / Mary Hoyt Halavais -- The land of Syria in the late seventeenth century : ʻAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and linking city and countryside through study, travel, and worship / Steve Tamari.
Summary:
"Grounded Identities : Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including Kurdistan, Andalusia and the Maghrib, and geographical Syria in the pre-modern Islamicate world. Together these essays put a premium on the affective and cultural dimensions of such attachments, fluctuations in the meaning and significance of lands in the face of historical transformations and, at the same time, the real and persistent qualities of lands and human attachments to them over long periods of time. These essays demonstrate that grounded identities are persistent and never static"-- Provided by publisher.
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