Usāma ibn Munqidh (d. 584/1188) and the Importance of Religion in Muslim Court Life
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Abstract
This article explores the views of the Shayzarī amīr Usāma ibn Munqidh (d. 584/1188) on the relationship between religious observance and courtly conduct in the Muslim communities of the sixth/twelfth-century Levant, as expressed in two works: Kitāb al-I‘tibār (The Book of Contemplation) and Lubāb al-Ādāb (The Kernels of Refinement). It demonstrates that Usāma saw these two spheres of activity as being inseparable, thus questioning the popular assumption that religious and political communities of the region generally operated independently at the time, with little regard for each other unless it was politically expedient.
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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