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The Empires of the Near East and India : Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities

By HANI KHAFIPOUR (Editor)

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ISBN : 9780231174374
Page : 672
Year of Publication : 2019    Edition : 1
Publisher : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject : HISTORY

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Description :

In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in these three empires left a lasting legacy on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the Near East and India. This volume is a comprehensive sourcebook of newly translated texts that shed light on the intertwined histories and cultures of these communities, presenting a wide range of source material spanning literature, philosophy, religion, politics, mysticism, and visual art in thematically organized chapters. Scholarly essays by leading researchers provide historical context for closer analyses of a lesser-known era and a framework for further research and debate. The volume aims to provide a new model for the study and teaching of the region’s early modern history that stands in contrast to the prevailing trend of examining this interconnected past in isolation.

Hani Khafipour received his doctorate at the University of Chicago. A historian of medieval and early modern Iran, he teaches in the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California.

Content :

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Acknowledgments

Introduction, by Hani Khafipour

Part I. The Religious Landscape

1. Converts, Apostates, and Polytheists

2. Heretics, Polytheists, and the Path of the Righteous

3. The Zealot, the Sufi, and the Quest for Spiritual Transcendence

Part II. Political Culture

4. Conceptions of Sovereignty: The Poet, the Scholar, and the Court Sufi

5. The King’s Deathbed: Coronation, Execution, and Fratricide

6. A Tale of Three Cities: Diplomacy and Conquest

Part III. Philosophical Inquiries