Turkestan and the rise of Eurasian empires: a study of politics and invented traditions

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان:	Turkestan and the rise of Eurasian empires: a study of politics and invented traditions
المؤلفون:	Anooshahr, Ali, 1975-
سنة النشر:	2018
Subject Person:	İdrîs Bitlîsî 1520. Hasht bihisht, Haydar Mirza 1499 or 1500-1551. Tarikh-i Rashidi, Faz̤l Allāh ibn Rūzbahān 1519. Mihmannamah-i Bukhara, Babur Emperor of Hindustan 1483-1530, Genghis Khan 1162-1227, Muḥammad Shaybānī Khan of the Uzbeks 1451-1510
جغرافية الموضوع:	Islamic countries -- History, Asia, Central -- Historiography, Turkey -- Historiography, Iran -- Historiography, South Asia -- History
الوصف:	"It has long been known that the origins of the early modern dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to "Turco-Mongol" or "Turcophone" war bands. However, too often has this connection been taken at face value, usually along the lines of ethno-linguistic continuity. Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires argues that the connection between a mythologized "Turkestani" or "Turco-Mongol" origin and these dynasties was not simply and objectively present as fact. Rather, much creative energy was unleashed by courtiers and leaders from Bosnia to Bihar (with Bukhara and Badakhshan along the way) in order to manipulate and invent the ancestry of the founders of these dynasties. Through constructed genealogies, nascent empires founded on disorganized military and political events were reduced to clear and stable categories. With proper family trees in place and their power legitimized, leaders became far removed from their true identities as bands of armed men and transformed into warrior kings. This created a longstanding pattern of false histories created by the intellectuals of the day. Essentially, one can even say that Turco-Mongol progenitors did not beget the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Mongol, and Shibanid states. Quite the contrary, one can instead say that historians writing in these empires were the ancestors of the "Turco-Mongol" lineage of their founders. Using one or more specimens of Persian historiography, in a series of five case studies, each focusing on one of these early polities, Ali Anooshahr shows how "Turkestan", "Central Asia", or "Turco-Mongol" functioned as literary tropes in the political discourse of the time."
Contents Note:	Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Origins of the Question of Origins -- 3. The Early Ottomans in Idris Bitlisi's Hasht Bihisht -- 4. The Early Safavids -- 5. Uzbeks and Kazakhs in Fazl Allah Khunji's Mihmannamah-i Bukhara -- 6. Mongols in the Tarikh-i Rashidi -- 7. Timurid India -- 8. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Original Identifier:	IsJJNL: 004372398NNL01-Aleph OCoLC: 1006810692
نوع الوثيقة:	Monograph
اللغة:	English
رقم الانضمام:	edsram.990043723980205171
قاعدة البيانات:	RAMBI

الوصف
الوصف غير متاح.