From Scholarly Circles to Mass Movements: The Formation of Legal Communities in Islamic Societies

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From Scholarly Circles to Mass Movements: The Formation of Legal Communities in Islamic Societies Get access Nimrod Hurvitz Nimrod Hurvitz Nimrod Hurvitz is a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and is the chairperson of the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy. He received his PhD in 1994 from Princeton University, where he studied with Michael Cook. His main areas of interest are Islamic religious movements in the medieval period and ‘Abbasid courtly culture. Hurvitz is the author of The Formation of Hanbalism: Piety into Power (2001), and is currently working on social and intellectual aspects of Hanbalism. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 4, October 2003, Pages 985–1008, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.4.985 Published: 01 October 2003