¿Al¿¿ al-Dawla al-Simn¿n¿ Between Spiritual Authority and Political Power

A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate

von Giovanni Maria Martini

522 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004352889
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2017
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV