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Summary
Summary
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. The result is a seminal work which illuminates important, yet largely neglected, aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Iran and the Middle East. Its scope, from the era of Ferdowsi, Iran's national epic poet and the author of the Shahnameh to the period of the Mongols, Timurids, Safavids, Zands and Qajars, examines the interaction between mythology, history, historiography, poetry, painting and craftwork in the long narrative of the Persianate experience. As such, Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran is essential reading and a reference point for students and scholars of Iranian history, Persian literature and the arts of the Islamic World.
Author Notes
Robert Hillenbrand is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh. A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Firuza Abdullaeva is Director of the Shahnameh Project at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | p. ix |
| List of illustrations | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements and note on transliteration and abbreviations | p. xv |
| Bibliography of Professor Charles Melville Compiled | p. xvii |
| 1 Charles Melville and Persian Pembroke | p. 3 |
| Studies on History and Historiography | |
| Iran and the Ancient World | |
| 2 On the epithets of two Sasanian kings in the Mujmal al-tawarikh wa-l-qisas | p. 11 |
| 3 The changing face of an Iranian sacred place: the Takht-i Sulayman | p. 15 |
| 4 Legitimating tyrants: the heroic rulers of archaic and classical Greece | p. 26 |
| History and Historiography in the Early Islamic East | |
| 5 Between Persian legend and Samanid orthodoxy: accounts about Gayumarth in Bal'ami's Tarikhnama | p. 33 |
| 6 Recent contributions to the history of the early Ghaznavids and Seljuqs | p. 46 |
| 7 Idris 'Imad al-Din and medieval Ismaili historiography | p. 52 |
| 8 The Kimiya-yi sa'adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) of al-Ghazali: a misunderstood work? | p. 59 |
| 9 Help me if you can! An analysis of a letter sent by the last Seljuq sultan of Barman | p. 70 |
| 10 'Imad al-Din al-Isfahani's Nusrat al-fatra, Seljuq politics and Ayyubid origins | p. 78 |
| 11 The rise and fall of a tyrant in Seljuq Anatolia: Sa'd al-Din Köpek's reign of terror, 1237-8 | p. 92 |
| Mongol Iran and its Neighbours | |
| 12 'It is as if their aim were the extermination of the species': the Mongol devastation in "Western Asia in the first half of the thirteenth century | p. 105 |
| 13 Juvayni's historical consciousness | p. 114 |
| 14 Persian and non-Persian historical writing in the Mongol Empire | p. 120 |
| 15 Ruling from tents: some remarks on women's ordos in Ilkhanid Iran | p. 126 |
| 16 Mamluks, Franks and Mongols: a necessary but impossible triangle | p. 137 |
| 17 Protecting private property vs negotiating political authority: Nur al-Din b. Jaja and his endowments in thirteenth-century Anatolia | p. 147 |
| Nomads, Rulers and Historians after the Mongols | |
| 18 The Mongol puppet lords and the Qarawnas | p. 169 |
| 19 Remarks on steppe nomads and merchants | p. 177 |
| 20 Loyalty, betrayal and retribution: Biktash Khan, Ya'qub Khan and Shah 'Abbas Is strategy in establishing control over Kirman, Yazd and Fars | p. 184 |
| 21 Reading Safavid and Mughal chronicles: kingly virtues and early modern Persianate historiography | p. 201 |
| British Views of Qajar Iran | |
| 22 Sir John Malcolm and the idea of Iran | p. 209 |
| 23 Edward Granville Browne amongst the Qalandars | p. 218 |
| Studies on Persian Literature | |
| Literary Culture in the Persianate World | |
| 24 From Zulaykha to Zuleika Dobson: the femme fatale and her ordeals in Persian literature and beyond | p. 235 |
| 25 A pictorial aetiology of Ferdowsi as a transcendent poet | p. 245 |
| 26 The Armenian poet Frik and his verses on Arghun Khan and Bugha | p. 249 |
| 27 An epic for Shah 'Abbas | p. 261 |
| The Theory and Practice of Persian Verse | |
| 28 A note on form and substance in classical Persian poetry | p. 269 |
| 29 Stringing replica pearls: translations of Persian verse into verse | p. 278 |
| Persian and Islamic Art | |
| Aspects of Religion | |
| 30 The Prophet Muhammad's footprint | p. 297 |
| 31 Non-Islamic faiths in the Edinburgh Biruni manuscript | p. 306 |
| 32 A tale of two minbars: woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the eve of the Ayyubids | p. 316 |
| The Arts of the Book | |
| 33 Illuminating Shah Tahrnasp s Shahnameh | p. 329 |
| 34 Rethinking Persian painting: the Silsila of Sultan Muhammad and the rise of sixteenth-century pictorial lacquer binding | p. 334 |
| 35 Composite figures in the Hadiqat al-haqiqa wa Shari'at al-tariqa of Sana' | p. 341 |
| 36 A medieval representation of Kay Khusraw's jam-i giti namay | p. 351 |
| 37 The Muraqqa album of the Zand period (PNS 383) in the National Library of Russia | p. 359 |
| 38 Interrogating marks in a Persian painting from fifteenth-century Herat - a note | p. 370 |
| Secular Images | |
| 39 Delicate displays: on a Safavid ceramic bottle in the Museum of Cairo University | p. 375 |
| 40 The return engagement of Rostam | p. 381 |
| Index | p. 391 |
