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

Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.

List of contents

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.

About the author

¿lker Evrim Binbas¿ is a lecturer in Early Modern Asian Empires in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ilker Evrim (Royal Holloway Binbas, Binbas&, Ilker Evrim Binbas¸, ¿lker Evrim Binbas¿
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781107689336
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68933-6
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous