- 224 pages
- English
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The century after the conquests of Timur witnessed the division of eastern and western Iran between his Turko-Mongol successors, and a flowering of Persian culture in the great cities of Herat, Samarqand and Tabriz, among others. In this, the ninth volume in The Idea of Iran series, leading scholars analyse the ways that Timurid contemporaries viewed their traditions and their environment, asking questions such as: what was the view of outsiders, and how does modern scholarship define the distinctive aspects of the period? Essential reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in the history of Iran, the book considers the political, religious and cultural history of this rich and highly productive interval that was the springboard for the formation of new imperial Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Ozbek orders of succeeding centuries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Arbiters of Iran: Chroniclers and Patrons in an Age of Literary Bounty
- The Local and the Universal in Turko-Iranian Ideology
- An Idea of Iran on Mongol Foundations: Territory, Dynasties and Tabriz as Royal City (Seventh/Thirteenth to Ninth/Fifteenth Century)
- Two Later Ninth/Fifteenth-Century Iranian Travellers
- Imitational Poetry as Pious Hermeneutics? Jami and Navaāi/Faniās Rewritings of Hafezās Opening Ghazal
- A Man of Letters: Hoseyn Vaāez Kashefi and his Persian Project
- The Timurid Book: golshan-e naqsh-o tazhib ā A Garden of Painting and Illumination
- From Maragha to Samarqand and Beyond: Revisiting a Quartet of Scientific Traditions in Greater Persia (ca. 1300sā1500s)
- Index
- eCopyright