The Timurid Century

The Idea of Iran Vol.9

Charles Melville

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781838606886
• eBook ISBN: 9781838606145
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

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.

Index:

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations; ‘n’ after a page number indicates the endnote number.

A

Abaqa (son of Hülegü Khan), here, here, here, here

‘Abbasids, here, here, here

Baghdad, here, here, here

use of Iranian structures and royal symbolism, here

‘Abd al-Hayy (artist), here

‘Abdollah Ansari (poet), here, here

Abivardi, Kamal al-Din Hoseyn (‘Feyzi’), here, here, here–here

Anis al-‘asheqin, here, here, here–here

Chartakht, here–here, here–here, here

death, here

as envoy to Soltan Ya‘qub Aq Qoyunlu, here–here, here

humour and humanity, here

life of, here

love, here, here–here, here

masnavi form, here, here

prose, here, here

religious issues, here–here

Soltan-Hoseyn-e Bayqara, here, here

travels, here, here, here–here, here, here

Abu Bakr (Eldigüzid Atabeg), here

Abu Ishaq (Injuid), here

Abu’l-Mohsen Mirza, here

Abu’l-Qasem Babor (grandson of Shahrokh), here

Abu-Sa‘id, Soltan (Timurid ruler), here, here, here

Abu Sa‘id b. Abu’l-Kheyr (Sheykh), here, here

Abu Sa‘id Khan (Öljeitü’s son and successor), here, here, here, here–here

Abu Torab (son of Soltan-Hoseyn, Timurid prince), here

‘Adel Aqa, here

Adle, Chahriyar, here

Afrasiyab (legendary Turanian king), here–here

Afsahzad, A‘lakhan, here, here

Afshar, Iraj, here

Ahari, Qotb al-Din (historian), here, here, here, here

Ahmad (Timurid prince), here

Ahmad, Soltan (Jalayerid sultan), here, her...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Arbiters of Iran: Chroniclers and Patrons in an Age of Literary Bounty
• The Local and the Universal in Turko-Iranian Ideology
• An Idea of Iran on Mongol Foundations: Territory, Dynasties and Tabriz as Royal City (Seventh/Thirteenth to Ninth/Fifteenth Century)
• Two Later Ninth/Fifteenth-Century Iranian Travellers
• Imitational Poetry as Pious Hermeneutics? Jami and Nava’i/Fani’s Rewritings of Hafez’s Opening Ghazal
• A Man of Letters: Hoseyn Va‘ez Kashefi and his Persian Project
• The Timurid Book: golshan-e naqsh-o tazhib – A Garden of Painting and Illumination
• From Maragha to Samarqand and Beyond: Revisiting a Quartet of Scientific Traditions in Greater Persia (ca. 1300s–1500s)
• Index
• eCopyright