Title Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of letters / İlker Evrim Binbaş

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of map and figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on transcription; Chronology of events; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Historian, occultist, and intellectual; Networks: formal and informal; The science of letters and the informal networks; Three moments of crisis; The crisis of 815-819/1413-1416; The crisis of 830/1426-1427; The crisis of 850/1446; Overview of the work; 2 The making of a Timurid intellectual; Background and family; Academic peregrinations; Yazdī and the ʿUmar-Shaykhids Yazdī and the ShāhrukhidsThe rebellion of Sulṭān-Muḥammad; Final years and death; 3 Informal intellectual networks in Timurid Iran; Yazdī and the Sufi networks; The Niʿmatullāhī network; Sufi networks in Khorasan and Central Asia; Riddling the universe: Yazdī's theory of muʿammā as an occult practice; Iskandar b. ʿUmar-Shaykh and the intellectuals; Ahl-i kashf va taḥqīq; The Ikhvān al-ṣafā: a clandestine network?; 4 The prophet of Cairo and the master of Isfahan; The prophet of Cairo: Sayyid Ḥusayn Akhlāṭī; Akhlāṭī's Timurid connections; Akhlāṭī's Ottoman connection: Shaykh Bedreddīn The master of Isfahan: Ṣā'in al-Dīn 'Alī TurkaThe science of letters and the empowering of informal networks; 5 The articulation of a princely political discourse; Timur and historiography; Timurid historiography in context; Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī and the formation of the dual canon; Mīrānshāhid historiography; ʿUmar-Shaykhid historiography in Fars; Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī; Mu'īn al-Dīn Naṭanzī; 6 Writing history in the Timurid Empire; Medieval rhetoric and historiography; The Muqaddima of the *Tārīkh-i Jahāngīr; The Dībācha to the *Fatḥnama-yi Ṣāḥibqirānī The Ẓafarnāma and the *Fatḥnāma-yi HumāyūnThe Second Maqāla of the Ẓafarnāma or the Mashhad Manuscript; Ḥāfiẓ-i Abrū and Yazdī; The fragments found in the Dīvān-i Sharaf; Composition of Yazdī's compendium; The turn of the 830s/1420-1430s; 7 The king's two lineages: the evolution of a politico-theological idea; Khurūj and ẓuhūr: cosmos and history in Yazdī's Alexander narrative; The dual caliphate: khilāfat-i ilāhī and khilāfat-i ṣūrī; Shāhrukh as the mujaddid in the Ẓafarnāma; The caliphate redux: Sulṭān-Maḥmūd Shāhrukh; Excursus I: T.abasī and the khalīfa-yi bāṭin Excursus II: Iskandar b. ʿUmar Shaykh and the philosopher kingThe king's two lineages and Timurid politics; The tombstone inscriptions of Samarkand: an aspect of The Timurid political discourse on genealogy; 8 Epilogue; Appendix: Yazdī and his informal network; References; Works of Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī; Ẓafarnāma; Muqaddima; Second Maqāla; Munsha'āt-i Yazdī; Dīvān-i Sharaf; Ḥulal-i muṭarraz dar fann-i mu'ammā va lughaz; Abridgments of the Ḥulal-i muṭarraz; Al-Manāẓir fī al-mu'ammā; Kunh al-murād; Nikāt-i kalimāt al-tawḥīd fī al-Qur'ān; Sharḥ-i Qaṣīda-yi burda; Shuhūdiyya Summary Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history Subject Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, -1454. SUBJECT Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, -1454 fast Subject Muslims -- Intellectual life. HISTORY -- Asia -- General. Intellectual life Muslims -- Intellectual life SUBJECT Iran -- Intellectual life Subject Iran Form Electronic book ISBN 9781107286368 1107286360 9781316555545 1316555542

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