Kings and dervishes : Sufi world renunciation and the symbolism of kingship in the Persianate world /
"Saïd Amir Arjomand's Kings and Dervishes is a pioneering study of the emergence and development of Sufism during the formation of the Persianate world. While the Sufi doctrine was expressed in the New Persian language, its social organization was detached from the civic movement among the...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The emergence and development of Persianate Sufism in the Greater Khorasan
- Persianate Sufism from ascetic world renunciation to divine love
- The development of Persianate Sufism in Iran, Seljuq Rum Kingdom and Northern India
- Persianate kingship, its philosophical recasting and symbolic contestation
- Sufi love mysticism and its antinomian and gnostic turns in Anatolia
- Emergence of the Sufi orders in Iran and the age of Sufi sainthood
- Persianate kingship in the Turko-Mongolian empires and the political ethic of world-accommodating Sufism
- The Fotovvat movement and symbolic popular contestation of Turko-Mongolian domination
- Urban confraternities and cultural democratization in the Age of Hāfez
- Sufi sainthood and world-accommodation in the Timurid age
- Origins and development of counter-millenial sovereignty in Safavid Iran
- Conclusions.