Description
Book SynopsisThe century after the conquests of Timur witnessed the division of eastern and western Iran between his Turko-Mongol successors, and a flowering of Persian culture in the great cities of Herat, Samarqand and Tabriz, among others. In this, the ninth volume in The Idea of Iran series, leading scholars analyse the ways that Timurid contemporaries viewed their traditions and their environment, asking questions such as: what was the view of outsiders, and how does modern scholarship define the distinctive aspects of the period? Essential reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in the history of Iran, the book considers the political, religious and cultural history of this rich and highly productive interval that was the springboard for the formation of new imperial Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Ozbek orders of succeeding centuries.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction
Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK Arbiters of Iran: Chroniclers and Patrons in an Age of Literary Bounty
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University, USA The Local and Universal in Turko-Iranian Ideology
Beatrice Forbes Manz, Tufts University, USA An Idea of Iran on Mongol Foundations: Territory, Dynasties and Tabriz as Royal City (Seventeenth/thirteenth to Ninth/fifteenth Century
Daniel Zakrzewski, Philips University Marburg, Germany Two Later Ninth/fifteenth-Century Iranian Travellers
John E. Woods, University of Chicago, USA Imitational Poetry as Pious Hermeneutics? Jami and Fani’s Rewriting of Hafez’s Opening Ghazal
Marc Toutant, Centre National de la Research Scientifique, France A Man of Letters: Hoseyn Va‘ez Kashefi and his Persian Project
Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto, Canada The Timurid Book:
golshan-e naqsh-o tazhib – A Garden of Painting and Illumination
Eleanor Sims From Maragha to Samarqand and Beyond: Revisiting a Quartet of Scientific Traditions in Greater Persia (ca. 1300s–1500s)
Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard, USA Index
