Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of LettersBy focusing on the works and intellectual network of the Timurid historian Sharaf al Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d.1454), this book presents a holistic view of intellectual life in fifteenth century Iran. İlker Evrim Binbaş argues that the intellectuals in this period formed informal networks which transcended political and linguistic boundaries, and spanned an area from the western fringes of the Ottoman State to bustling late medieval metropolises such as Cairo, Shiraz, and Samarkand. The network included an Ottoman revolutionary, a Mamluk prophet, and a Timurid occultist, as well as physicians, astronomers, devotees of the secret sciences, and those political figures who believed that the network was a force to be taken seriously. Also discussing the formation of an early modern Islamicate republic of letters, this book offers fresh insights on the study of intellectual history beyond the limitations imposed by nationalist methodologies, established genres, and recognized literary traditions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The making of a Timurid intellectual | 26 |
Informal intellectual networks in Timurid Iran | 74 |
The prophet of Cairo and the master of Isfahan | 114 |
The articulation of a princely political discourse | 165 |
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According ahl-i Akhlatı al-Bistamı al-Dın al-Dın Muhammad al-Dın ʿAlı Yazdı al-tavarıkh amirs Amır Ando Aubin Bakr Barthold Baysunghur Bedreddın Binbas Cairo caliphate Chinggisid divine Dıbacha dynasty Fathnama-yi Fazlullah fifteenth century genealogy God’s Hafiz-i Abru Hafız Halıl Herat historian historiography Hurufıs Husayn Ibn al-Jazarı Ibrahım-Sultan Ikhvan al-safa informal networks inscription intellectual network Iran Isfahan Iskandar Islamic jafr Jamiʿ Jamı Jurjanı Khalıl-Sultan khilafat-i Mamluk manuscript Manz Mawlana Mıranshah Mıranshahid Munshaʾat Muqaddima Muzaffarid muʿamma Nafsat narrative Natanzı Navaʾı occult Ottoman Persian Pır Muhammad political prophetic Qara Yusuf Qaraqoyunlu Qivam al-Dın Qurʾan Rashıd reference Risala-yi ruler Samarkand Sayyid Saʾin al-Dın Turka scholars science of letters Second Maqala Shahrukh Shahrukhid Shamı’s Shams Sharaf al-Dın ʿAlı Shaykh Shiraz sources Sufi Sufism sultan Sultan-Muhammad Tabası tahqıq Tarıkh-i Tehran Timur Timur’s death Timurid dynasty Timurid Empire treatise Turka Ulugh Beg Woods Yazd Yazdi Yazdı YZN/Mash YZN/Teh Zafarnama ʿAbd ʿUmar-Shaykh