Imperial identity in the Mughal Empire : memory and dynastic politics in early modern South and Central Asia / Lisa Balabanlilar.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 1.الناشر:London ; I.B. Tauris ; 2012الموزع:New York : distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012وصف:xix, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781848857261 (hbk)
- 1848857268 (hbk)
- DS461 B25 2012
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS461 B25 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000400161 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [192]-209) and index.
Timurid political charisma and the ideology of rule -- Babur and the Timurid exile -- Dynastic memory and the genealogical cult -- The peripatetic court and the Timurid-Mughal landscape -- Legitimacy, restless princes and the imperial succession -- Imagining Kingship.
Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition.