Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran - Sharaf Al-Din ''Ali Yazdi and the Islamicate Republic of Letters

Informationen zum Autor Ilker Evrim Binbas¸ is a lecturer in Early Modern Asian Empires in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Klappentext Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history. Zusammenfassung Discusses the importance of informal intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history. The book focuses on the fifteenth century Timurid! Ottoman! and Mamluk empires! and traces the connections between intellectuals in these three early modern Islamic polities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The making of a Timurid intellectual; 3. Informal intellectual networks in Timurid Iran; 4. The prophet of Cairo and the master of Isfahan; 5. The articulation of a princely political discourse; 6. Writing the past; 7. The king's two lineages: the evolution of a politico-theological idea; 8. Epilogue.

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• Authors: Cilker Evrim Binbaos, Ilker Evrim Binbas, Lker Evrim' Binbas, İlker Evrim Binbaş, Binbas&, ?Lker Evrim Binbas?, Ilker Evrim Binbas¸, ¿lker Evrim Binbas¿
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2016
• EAN: 9781107054240
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05424-0
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Iran, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500