?Ala? al-Dawla al-Simnani Between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate (eBook)

With a Critical Edition of al-Warid al-sarid al-tarid subhat al-marid and its Persian version Zayn al-mu?taqad li-zayn al-mu'taqid

Giovanni Maria Martini (Autor)

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2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-35674-0 (ISBN)

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In ?Ala? al-Dawla al-Simnani between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate, Giovanni Maria Martini investigates the personality of a major figure in the socio-political and cultural landscape of Mongol Iran. In pursuing this objective, the author follows parallel paths: Chapter 1 provides the most updated reconstruction of Simnani's (d. 736/1336) biography, which, thanks to its unique features, emerges as a cross-section of Iranian society and as a microhistory of the complex relationships between a Sufi master, Persian elites and Mongol rulers during the Ilkhanid period; Chapter 2 contains a study on the phenomenon of Arabic-Persian diglossia in Simnani's written work, arguing for its socio-religious function; in Chapters 3 to 6 the critical editions of two important, interrelated treatises by Simnani are presented; finally, Chapter 7 offers the first full-length annotated translation of a long work by Simnani ever to appear in a Western language.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• ISBN-10: 90-04-35674-6 / 9004356746
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-35674-0 / 9789004356740