Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of letters /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Binbaş, İlker Evrim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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 politico-theological idea.