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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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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.