Timurids in transition: Turko-Persian politics and acculturation in medieval Iran
ISBN: 9789004160316
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Brill
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Middle Eastern: 632-1918;

Applying the Weberian concept of the routinization of charisma, the book examines the transformation of the nomadic empire of Tamerlane into a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model by focusing on the reign of the last Timurid ruler Sul'n-?usain Bayqara in fifteenth-century Iran.

Maria E. Subtelny, PhD (1979) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto

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