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• Publisher : Harvard CMES
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• Release Date : 28 May 2024

Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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• Release Date : 03 June 2019

Transforming our understanding of Persian art, this impressive interdisciplinary book decodes some of the world's most exquisite medieval paintings. It reveals the hidden meaning behind enigmatic figures and scenes that

• Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
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• Release Date : 28 September 2017

An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm "Mysticism" in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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• Release Date : 21 November 2007

Sufism and Theology are two major currents in Islamic thought and religious culture, and over the centuries they have displayed immense diversity and intellectual richness. This book takes a flexible

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 16 October 2012

At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest

• Publisher : NYU Press
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• Release Date : 05 December 2017

Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulers In recent decades, scholars have produced much new research on courtly life in medieval Europe, but studies

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 04 May 2018

Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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• Release Date : 14 June 2016

One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in international relations,

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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• Release Date : 28 May 2020

This book explores the history of Muslim-Christian theological exchanges in Iran during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Focused on the work of the renegade missionary 'Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 30 August 2009

The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan, and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. Here, Colin P.