ISBN:
9780231160360
,
9780231504713
,
0231160364
,
0231504713
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 343 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Guyer, Benjamin M. [Rezension von: Moin, A. Azfar, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam] 2016
Series Statement:
South Asia across the disciplines
DDC:
297.2/72
Keywords:
Kings and rulers Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Sovereignty Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Muslim saints
;
Kings and rulers
;
Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Sovereignty
;
Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Muslim saints
;
Mogulreich
;
Islam
;
Sufismus
;
Herrscher
;
Legitimation
Abstract:
Islam and the millennium -- The lord of conjunction: sacrality and sovereignty in the age of Timur -- The crown of dreams: Sufis and princes in sixteenth-century Iran -- The alchemical court: the beginnings of the Mughal imperial cult -- The millennial sovereign: the troubled unveiling of the savior monarch -- The throne of time: the painted miracles of the saint emperor -- The graffiti under the throne
Description / Table of Contents:
Islam and the millennium -- The lord of conjunction: sacrality and sovereignty in the age of Timur -- The crown of dreams: Sufis and princes in sixteenth-century Iran -- The alchemical court: the beginnings of the Mughal imperial cult -- The millennial sovereign: the troubled unveiling of the savior monarch -- The throne of time: the painted miracles of the saint emperor -- The graffiti under the throne.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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