Iran to India

The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE

Alka Patel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8222-6 (ISBN)

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Alka Patel brings together all the architectural patronage attributed to the Shansabānīs in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Swat and lower Indus region). In doing so, she creates an architectural biography of this pivotal polity and its trans-regional empire. By treating built remains as independent, primary sources, and juxtaposing them with the principal texts, Patel creates a complex understanding of the historical processes the Shansabānīs initiated throughout the landscapes they re-conjoined. Overall, this book provides the first analysis of this important epigraphic corpus. It will serve as the starting point for future research on the medieval epigraphy of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Alka Patel is Professor in the Department of Art History and in the PhD Program for Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Patel's research has focused on South Asia and its connections with Iran and Central Asia, including overland and Indian Ocean maritime networks. Her works include Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries (Brill 2004), and special issues of Ars Orientalis XXXIV (2004) and Archives of Asian Art LIX (2007). Patel’s interests have expanded to include mercantile networks and architectural patronage in 18th-19th-century South Asia, as evidenced in Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition (co-ed. K. Leonard, Brill 2012). Her recent volume India and Iran in the Longue Durée (Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2017), co-edited with ancient Iranist Touraj Daryaee, analyzes Indo-Iranian connections over two millennia.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration
Introduction: The Elephant and Its Parts

Kingly Trajectories
Beginnings
The Early Shansabanis: Firuzkuh, Bamiyan, and Tiginabad/Old Qandahar (c.1140s-1170s)
One and Several: Gharjistan, Chisht, and Imperial Firuzkuh
The "Ports of India": Ghazna and Bust-Lashkari Bazar
Encountering the Many "Indias"
Epilogue: Iran to India

Appendix: Shansabānī Religious and Historical Inscriptions in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Works Cited and Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	184 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4744-8222-8 / 1474482228
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-8222-6 / 9781474482226
Zustand	Neuware