Timurid century : the idea of Iran / edited by Charles Melville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melville, Charles, editor.

Series:

Idea of Iran ; vol. 9

The Idea of Iran ; vol. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--1256-1500.

Iran.

Iran--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v.).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List 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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781838606169

1838606165

9781838606145

1838606149

1-83860-615-7

OCLC:

1152804009