Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective - 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 Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective write by Robert L. Canfield. This book was released on 2002-04-30. Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book-length study to examine Turko-Persian culture as an entity.
Timurids in Transition
Timurids in Transition - 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 Timurids in Transition write by Maria Subtelny. This book was released on 2007-08-30. Timurids in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did the the descendants of Tamerlane, collectively known as the Timurids, make the transition from a nomadic empire to a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model , and what effect did the process of transition have on their Turko-Mongolian customs and identity? This volume seeks to answer these questions by utilizing the Weberian concepts of the “routinization” of charismatic authority and the patrimonial household state. Focusing on the period of the last Timurid ruler, Sulṭān-Ḥusain Bayqara (1469–1506), the author examines the impact of the introduction of Persian modes of bureaucratic administration on the evolution of Timurid government and describes the development of the agrarian economy of the eastern Iranian province of Khorasan through the Islamic institution of the pious endowment. Based on an exceptionally broad range of sources in Persian, Arabic, and Turkic languages, the book provides a new paradigm for understanding the Timurids within the framework of post-Mongol history and offers fresh insights into Turko-Persian relations and the problem of acculturation in medieval Iran.
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 - 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 Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 write by Kevin L. Schwartz. This book was released on 2020-03-18. Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia - at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging - this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It challenges the manner in which Iranian nationalism has infilitrated Persian literary history writing and recovers the multi-regional breadth and vibrancy of a global lingua franca connecting peoples and places across Islamic Eurasia. Focusing on 3 case studies (18th-century Isfahan, a small court in South India and the literary climate of the Anglo-Afghan war), it reveals the literary and cultural ties that bound this world together as well as some of the trends that broke it apart.
A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East
A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East - 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 A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East write by Linda T. Darling. This book was released on 2013-05-02. A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, "the Circle of Justice" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government’s justice toward the population generates political power, military strength, prosperity, and good administration. This book traces this set of relationships from its earliest appearance in the political writings of the Sumerians through four millennia of Middle Eastern culture. It explores how people conceptualized and acted upon this powerful insight, how they portrayed it in symbol, painting, and story, and how they transmitted it from one regime to the next. Moving towards the modern day, the author shows how, although the Circle of Justice was largely dropped from political discourse, it did not disappear from people’s political culture and expectations of government. The book demonstrates the Circle’s relevance to the Iranian Revolution and the rise of Islamist movements all over the Middle East, and suggests how the concept remains relevant in an age of capitalism. A "must read" for students, policymakers, and ordinary citizens, this book will be an important contribution to the areas of political history, political theory, Middle East studies and Orientalism.
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands - 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 Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands write by Victor Lieberman. This book was released on 2003. Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks to rethink 1,000 years of Eurasian history.
