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Record W4413218757 · doi:10.1080/09503110.2025.2538397

Usāma ibn Munqidh (d. 584/1188) and the Importance of Religion in Muslim Court Life

2025· article· en· W4413218757 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAl-Masāq · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIslamic Studies and History
Canadian institutionsLangara College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyIslamReligious studiesHistoryPolitical scienceAncient historyLawTheology

Abstract

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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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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.638
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it