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The future of Iran's past : Nizam al-Mulk remembered / Neguin Yavari.
LIBRA DS288.8 .Y38 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yavari, Neguin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Niẓām al-Mulk, 1018-1092--Influence.
- Niẓām al-Mulk.
- Niẓām al-Mulk, 1018-1092.
- Viziers--Iran--Biography.
- Viziers.
- Seljuks--Civilization.
- Seljuks.
- Iran--History--640-1256.
- Iran.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 275 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 Of History and Biography 1
- Framing the query 1
- Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam's 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz 9
- Einhard's Charlemagne 18
- Comparing lives 22
- 2 Origins 31
- The eleventh century 31
- The Turks-forever arriviste 39
- Saljuqs 42
- Turkmanan: Saljua militia? 47
- Saljuq origins in the medieval Islamic imaginaire 54
- 3 Representations of Nizam al-Mulk 61
- Early days 61
- Hasan's nemesis 69
- Hasan the Nizam al-Mulk 76
- Nizam al-Mulk and Malikshah 79
- Nizam al-Mulk's vizierate 89
- Nizamiyyas 90
- Administration 94
- End of Nizam al-Mulk 97
- Nizam al-Mulk: armed prophet 99
- 4 Nizam al-Mulk and Alterity 105
- Turks 105
- Caliphs 109
- Heretics 111
- Sufis 118
- 5 Nizam al-Mulk Remembered 127
- Nizam al-Mulk's Iran 133
- The new Iran 135
- Iran's Nizam al-Mulk 138
- Nizam al-Mulk modern 140.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190855109
- 019085510X
- OCLC:
- 986237059
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