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Author Yavari, Neguin, author.

Title The future of Iran's past : Nizam al-Mulk remembered / Neguin Yavari
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Contents Of History and Biography -- Framing the query -- Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam's 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz -- Einhard's Charlemagne -- Comparing lives -- Origins -- The eleventh century -- The Turks-forever arriviste -- Saljuqs -- Turkmanan: Saljua militia? -- Saljuq origins in the medieval Islamic imaginaire -- Representations of Nizam al-Mulk -- Early days -- Hasan's nemesis -- Hasan the Nizam al-Mulk -- Nizam al-Mulk and Malikshah -- Nizam al-Mulk's vizierate -- Nizamiyyas -- Administration -- End of Nizam al-Mulk -- Nizam al-Mulk: armed prophet -- Nizam al-Mulk and Alterity -- Turks -- Caliphs -- Heretics -- Sufis -- Nizam al-Mulk Remembered -- Nizam al-Mulk's Iran -- The new Iran -- Iran's Nizam al-Mulk -- Nizam al-Mulk modern
Summary "The Future of Iran's Past is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-92), celebrated Persian vizier and stalwart figure of power and authority in medieval Islamic society. He became the de facto ruler of a vast empire, with a final apotheosis as Islamic history's archetypal good vizier. Such was his standing among the glitterati of his era that he was considered an ideal replacement for the Abbasid caliph himself. As well as the outstanding figure in a long run of great viziers and administrators who dominated premodern Islamic politics, al-Mulk is remembered as the most prominent politician of the period to perceive new beginnings and radical departures. Neguin Yavari offers a close reading of al-Mulk's many legacies, revealing a complex imbrication of political and religious authority, as well as pre-Islamic and Islamic influences that have together shaped modern Iran. She shows that the new Iran of al-Mulk's singular vision, rather than a tale of uninterrupted Iranisation, is imbued with an extensive interplay of residual and emergent tendencies"-- Publisher description
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 9, 2019)
Subject Niẓām al-Mulk, 1018-1092 -- Influence
SUBJECT Niẓām al-Mulk, 1018-1092 fast
Subject Viziers -- Iran -- Biography
Seljuks -- Civilization.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Seljuks -- Civilization
Viziers
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- 640-1256. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005419
Subject Iran
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190943219
0190943211