Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of l...
Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of l...
Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of letters / İlker Evrim Binbaş.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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G 2017/6337
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English
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xviii, 340 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- The making of a Timurid intellectual -- Informal intellectual networks in Timurid Iran -- The prophet of Cairo and the master of Isfahan -- The articulation of a princely political discourse -- Writing history in the Timurid Empire -- The king's two lineages : the evolution of a poli...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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England
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
"By focusing on the works and intellectual network of the Timurid historian Sharaf al Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī (d.1454), this book presents a holistic view of intellectual life in fifteenth century Iran. İlker Evrim Binbaş argues that the intellectuals in this period formed informal networks which transcended political and linguistic boundaries, and spa...
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Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of letters / İlker Evrim Binbaş.
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-326) and index.
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G 2017/6337
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1107054249 (hardback)
9781107054240 (hardback)
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181.5
MMS ID
991024151913402626
