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Kings and Dervishes
Sufi World Renunciation and the Symbolism of Kingship in the Persianate World
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Kings and Dervishes
Sufi World Renunciation and the Symbolism of Kingship in the Persianate World
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Saïd Amir Arjomand's Kings and Dervishes is a pioneering study of the emergence and development of Sufism during the formation of the Persianate world. Whereas Sufi doctrine was expressed in the New Persian language, its social organization was detached from the civic movement among the urban craftsmen and artisans known as the fotovva(t) and was politically shaped by multiple forces—first by the revival of Persian kingship, and then by the emergence of the Turko-Mongolian empires.
The intermingling of Sufism's developmental path with the transformation of the Persianate political regimes resulted in the progressive appropriation of royal symbols by the Sufi shaykhs. The original Sufi world renunciation gave way first to world accommodation and the medieval love mysticism of Jalāl al-Din Rumi and Hāfez of Shiraz, and then to world domination. This comprehensive work of historical sociology traces these spiritual and political evolutions over the course of some six centuries, showing how the Sufi saints' symbolic sovereignty was eventually made real in the imperial kingship of the Persianate world's early modern empires.
The intermingling of Sufism's developmental path with the transformation of the Persianate political regimes resulted in the progressive appropriation of royal symbols by the Sufi shaykhs. The original Sufi world renunciation gave way first to world accommodation and the medieval love mysticism of Jalāl al-Din Rumi and Hāfez of Shiraz, and then to world domination. This comprehensive work of historical sociology traces these spiritual and political evolutions over the course of some six centuries, showing how the Sufi saints' symbolic sovereignty was eventually made real in the imperial kingship of the Persianate world's early modern empires.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Emergence and the Development of Persianate Sufism in Greater Khorasan
- 2. Persianate Sufism—from Ascetic World Renunciation to Divine Love
- 3. The Development of Persianate Sufism in Iran, the Seljuq Kingdom of Rum, and Northern India
- 4. The Persianate Theory of Kingship and Its Symbolic Contestation
- 5. Sufi Love Mysticism and Its Antinomian and Gnostic Turns in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia
- 7. Persianate Kingship in the Turko-Mongolian Empires and the Political Ethic of World-Accommodating Sufism
- 8. The Fotovvat Movement and the Symbolic Popular Contestation of Turko-Mongolian Domination
- 9. Urban Confraternities and Antinomian Democratization in the Age of Hāfez
- 10. Sufi Sainthood and World Accommodation in the Timurid Age
- 11. The Origins and Development of Countermillennial Sovereignty in Safavid Iran
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- References
- Index