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The millennial sovereign : sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam / A. Azfar Moin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moin, A. Azfar.
- Series:
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Kings and rulers.
- Sovereignty--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Sovereignty.
- Muslim saints.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Islam and the millennium
- The lord of conjunction: sacrality and sovereignty in the age of Timur
- The crown of dreams: Sufis and princes in sixteenth-century Iran
- The alchemical court: the beginnings of the Mughal imperial cult
- The millennial sovereign: the troubled unveiling of the savior monarch
- The throne of time: the painted miracles of the saint emperor
- Conclusion: The graffiti under the throne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231160360
- 0231160364
- 9780231504713
- 0231504713
- OCLC:
- 772715736
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