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Timurids in transition: Turko-Persian politics and acculturation in medieval Iran

Maria Subtelny
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page xi)
  • Note on Transliteration and Style (page xiii)
  • Maps and Illustrations (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Chapter One. THE ROUTINIZATION OF CHARISMA: THE TIMURID PATRIMONIAL HOUSEHOLD STATE (page 11)
  • Chapter Two. FROM POLITICAL VAGABOND TO POTENTATE: THE CAREER OF SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN BAYQARA (page 43)
  • Chapter Three. THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE: CENTRALIZING REFORMS AND THEIR OPPONENTS (page 74)
  • Chapter Four. THE SEARCH FOR LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS: KHORASAN AND THE AGRICULTURAL IMPERATIVE (page 103)
  • Chapter Five. PIETY AND PRAGMATISM: THE ROLE OF THE ISLAMIC ENDOWMENT (page 148)
  • Chapter Six. OF SAINTS AND SCRIBES: THE TIMURID SHRINE AS A VEHICLE FOR AGROMANAGEMENT (page 192)
  • Conclusion (page 229)
  • Appendix One. SURVEY OF ENDOWMENT DEEDS FROM THE TIMURID PERIOD
  • Appendix Two. A TIMURID DEED OF ENDOWMENT: THE VAQFIYYA OF AFAQ BEGIM, WIFE OF SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN BAYQARA, FOR HER MAUSOLEUM IN HERAT
  • Appendix Three. AN EDICT OF SULṬĀN-ABŪ SAՙĪD CONCERNING THE GULISTĀN DAM AT MASHHAD
  • Appendix Four. A DIPLOMA OF APPOINTMENT ISSUED BY SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN FOR THE SUPERVISOR OF THE ՙALID SHRINE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AT BALKH
  • Appendix Five. BILLS OF PURCHASE AND SALE RELATING TO THE PRIVATIZATION OF STATE LAND IN THE BALKH REGION BY SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN
  • Bibliography (page 361)
  • Index (page 391)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JRASS 18.3 (July 2008): 376-377 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27755967
JAS 68.2 (May 2009): 626-628 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20619765
SP 84.3 (July 2009): 781-782 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40593665
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Published: 2007
Publisher: Brill
ISBN(s)
  • 9789047421603 (ebook)
  • 9789004160316 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Middle Eastern: 632-1918
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