Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs write by Joo-Yup Lee. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs Joo-Yup Lee examines the formation of new group identities, with a focus on the Qazaqs, in post-Mongol Central Eurasia within the context of qazaqlïq, or the qazaq way of life, a custom of political vagabondage widespread among the Turko-Mongolian peoples of Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe during the post-Mongol period. Utilizing a broad range of original sources, the book suggests that the Qazaqs, as well as the Shibanid Uzbeks and Ukrainian Cossacks, came into existence as a result of the qazaq, or “ambitious brigand,” activities of their founders, providing a new paradigm for understanding state formation and identity in post-Mongol Central Eurasia.
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Spectacles of Sultanship write by Gowaart Van Den Bossche. This book was released on 2023-09-18. Literary Spectacles of Sultanship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate have been read as part of an effort of these sultans to legitimise their position on the throne. This book reconsiders the main corpus of six such biographies written by the historians Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (d. 1293) and his nephew Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAlī (d. 1330) and argues that these were in fact far more complex texts. An understanding of their discourses of legitimisation needs to be embedded within a broader understanding of the multi-directional discourses operating across the texts. The study proposes to interpret these texts as "spectacles", in which authors emplotted the reign of a sultan in thoroughly literary and rhetorical fashion, making especially extensive use of textual forms prevalent in the chancery. In doing so the authors reimagined the format of the biography as a performative vehicle for displaying their literary credentials and helping them negotiate positions in the chancery and the wider courtly orbit.
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane write by Peter Jackson. This book was released on 2024-02-06. From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China’s Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia. In this authoritative account, Peter Jackson traces Tamerlane’s rise to power against the backdrop of the decline of Mongol rule. Jackson argues that Tamerlane, a keen exponent of Mongol custom and tradition, operated in Genghis Khan’s shadow and took care to draw parallels between himself and his great precursor. But, as a Muslim, Tamerlane drew on Islamic traditions, and his waging of wars in the name of jihad, whether sincere or not, had a more powerful impact than those of any Muslim Mongol ruler before him.
Russia and Central Asia
Russia and Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia and Central Asia write by Shoshana Keller. This book was released on 2020. Russia and Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This introduction to Central Asia and its relationship with Russia helps restore Central Asia to the general narrative of Russian and world history.
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives write by Maaike van Berkel. This book was released on 2018-01-22. Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.
