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'Alā' Al-Dawla Al-Simnānī Between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanat
Contributor(s): Martini, Giovanni Maria (Author)

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ISBN: 9004352880     ISBN-13: 9789004352889
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $166.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Language: Arabic
Published: December 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam - Sufi
- History | Asia - General
- History | Middle East - General
Series: Islamicate Intellectual History
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" L (1.85 lbs) 522 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Multi-Lingual
 
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In ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate, Giovanni Maria Martini investigates the personality of a major figure in the socio-political and cultural landscape of Mongol Iran. In pursuing this objective, the author follows parallel paths: Chapter 1 provides the most updated reconstruction of Simnānī's (d. 736/1336) biography, which, thanks to its unique features, emerges as a cross-section of Iranian society and as a microhistory of the complex relationships between a Sufi master, Persian elites and Mongol rulers during the Ilkhanid period; Chapter 2 contains a study on the phenomenon of Arabic-Persian diglossia in Simnānī's written work, arguing for its socio-religious function; in Chapters 3 to 6 the critical editions of two important, interrelated treatises by Simnānī are presented; finally, Chapter 7 offers the first full-length annotated translation of a long work by Simnānī ever to appear in a Western language.
 
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