{"title":"The Pen, the Sword, and the Vizier","authors":"B. Auer","doi":"10.1017/9781108935876.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935876.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412346,"journal":{"name":"In the Mirror of Persian Kings","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115039624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theory and Application of Persianate Political Ethics in India","authors":"B. Auer","doi":"10.1017/9781108935876.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935876.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412346,"journal":{"name":"In the Mirror of Persian Kings","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127405479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The History of Persian Kingship and Persianization in South Asia","authors":"B. Auer","doi":"10.1017/9781108935876.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935876.003","url":null,"abstract":"Persian kingship is a transcultural phenomenon. In the medieval world of South Asia, Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized, translational, and adaptive political expression. The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor – ideals valorized historically and transculturally. Jamshı̄d and Farı̄dūn are two of the great heroes of Persian legend and exemplars of Persian kingship. Yet, the above praise, written by the historian H ̣asan Ni _ zāmı̄ (fl. 602/1206), refers to Qu _ tb al-Dı̄n Aybeg, the first Muslim sovereign of Delhi, a man of Turkic ethnicity and a former slave military officer of the Ghurid sultan Muʿizz al-Dı̄n Mu _ hammad b. Sām (r. 569–602/1173–1206). In the abstract, kingship is a concept embodied in specific practices that are culturally and historically determined. In principle, it is the rule of a just sovereign whose power is transmitted through blood, primarily through a son. Kingship in India, as elsewhere, was often tied to a specific set of religious beliefs and a carefully defined religious community. However, Persian kingship, as it was performed in the Islamic world, had no religious identity. It functioned on a set of ethical principles and qualities of leadership considered essential for legitimate rule. The pre-Islamic Persian past heavily influenced the history of South Asia. In fact, for a period of nearly 800 years, it was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organizing Indian political life. This was particularly true in Ghaznavid and Ghurid polities in the eleventh and twelfth centuries where the legacy of Persianate forms of governance had their first impact in South Asia. Where Persian","PeriodicalId":412346,"journal":{"name":"In the Mirror of Persian Kings","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114251155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108935876.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935876.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412346,"journal":{"name":"In the Mirror of Persian Kings","volume":"28 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114166355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface: In the Mirror of Persian Kings in India","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108935876.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935876.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412346,"journal":{"name":"In the Mirror of Persian Kings","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114295341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108935876.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935876.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412346,"journal":{"name":"In the Mirror of Persian Kings","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114766617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}