Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of letters /

Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran : Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of letters /

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Author / Creator:	Binbaş, İlker Evrim, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description:	xviii, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
Subject:	Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, -- -1454. Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, -- -1454. Muslims -- Intellectual life. Intellectual life. Muslims -- Intellectual life. Iran -- Intellectual life. Iran.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10803105

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ISBN:	9781107054240 (hardback) 1107054249 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-326) and index.
Summary:	"By focusing on the works and intellectual network of the Timurid historian Sharaf al Dīn ʻAlī 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"--

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