Contextualizing Framework: Knowledge and Power

Contextualizing Framework: Knowledge and Power

Berkey demonstrates how during this period there was a push for an education of students to have an understanding of essential texts. This was in turn a way for them to gain power as they would use the knowledge that they learned to work in a variety of offices. Berkey gives an example of how these students could move on to work as judges or be teachers themselves which allowed for them to have their own power. Berkey also mentions the unified Islamic law that was shaped at the time which allowed for people from different places to move freely through the Islamic world and not have to worry about their education being irrelevant.

Gus Townley

Berkey, Jonathan. The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Jonathan Berkey

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