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After Timur Left Francesca OrsiniSamira Sheikh2014 год

After Timur Left
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Аннотация: Abstract Most people imagine the period between Timur’s sack of Delhi and the arrival of the Mughals to be one of unrelenting darkness and disorder. The first major compendium of essays on the ‘long’ fifteenth century, this book presents a very different picture: one of intense cultural ferment, innovations in literature and language choice, and new forms of religious organization and expression. These cultural developments are set against a backdrop of political transformation. Once Timur returned to Samarkand in 1399, new kings and chieftains jostled for power, making new alliances and calling upon far-flung networks that stretched from Afghanistan to Bengal. Alongside the old capitals rose new towns inhabited by merchants and professionals, where long-standing local, cultural, and political forms were offset by transregional conversations wrought by increasingly mobile poets, preachers, and warriors who travelled widely in search of employment and adventure. A generation ago, the eighteenth century was revealed to be a period of innovation and entrepreneurship. In a similar vein, this book rehabilitates the fifteenth century through the interdisciplinary research of leading scholars of premodern South Asia, revealing foundational political and literary currents that have hitherto been obscured by empire-centred narratives of history.
Год издания: 2014
Авторы: Francesca Orsini, Samira Sheikh
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Источник: Oxford University Press eBooks
Ключевые слова: Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East, Islamic Studies and History
Другие ссылки: Oxford University Press eBooks (HTML)
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