Blain Auer: In the Mirror of Persian Kings

Cover: 9781108941044 | In the Mirror of Persian Kings | Blain Auer | Taschenbuch | Englisch

Rückseite: 9781108941044 | In the Mirror of Persian Kings | Blain Auer | Taschenbuch | Englisch

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

34,40 €

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:

Beschreibung

For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian political life. In the medieval world of South Asia, Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized and adaptive political expression. The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized historically and transculturally, yet the influence of the pre-Islamic Persian past and Persian forms of kingship has not yet been fully recognised. In this book, Blain Auer demonstrates how Persian kingship was a transcultural phenomenon. Describing the contributions made by kings, poets, historians, political and moral philosophers, he reveals how and why the image of the Persian king played such a prominent role in the political history of Islamicate societies, in general, and in India, in particular. By tracing the historical thread of this influence from Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Ghurid empires, Auer demonstrates how that legacy had an impact on the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim rulers who made claims to a broad symbolic and ideological inheritance from the Persian kings of legend.

Über den Autor

Blain Auer is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate (2012), co-editor of Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Medieval Central and South Asia (2019) and serves as Editor for the journals Marginalia, Études asiatiques, and the book series Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. The History of Persian Kingship and Persianization in South Asia; 2. Kings in History: Persian Royal Genealogies and Muslim Rulers; 3. Warrior King: Slaying Demons, Hunting Beasts, and War; 4. Theory and Application of Persianate Political Ethics in India; 5. The Pen, the Sword, and the Vizier; Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108941044
ISBN-10:	1108941044
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Auer, Blain
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Blain Auer
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,374 kg