Iran and the Deccan : Persianate art, culture, and talent in circulation, 1400-1700 /

Beginning in the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth centu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Overton, Keelan, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Excerpt on Yusuf Beg ʻAdil Khan, from Rafi al-Din Shirazi's Tazkirat al-Muluk / translated by Wheeler Thackston
  • Dynastic Self-Fashioning and the Arts of the Pen : Sufi and Calligraphy Networks between Fifteenth-Century Shiraz and Bidar / Peyvand Firouzeh
  • On Heroes and History : Responding to the Shahnamain the Deccan, 1500-1800 / Subah Dayal.