Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230148
Michele Bernardini
{"title":"Nasledie Kamala Khudžandi na zapade, Rukopisi Kamala Khužandi o ego tvorčestve, written by Heiser, Aleksander and Mirzoyunus, Matluba","authors":"Michele Bernardini","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"8 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893676","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230146
Nicola Melis
{"title":"The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, written by Gingeras, Ryan","authors":"Nicola Melis","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"59 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893298","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230143
Nana Kharebava
{"title":"David’s Descendants: Legitimacy and Identity Representations of the Converted Safavid Viceroys in East Georgia (1580–1724)","authors":"Nana Kharebava","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230143","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This scholarly exploration delves into the intersection of religious alignment and the validity of governance within identity representations embodied by the Safavid Viceroys (1501–1722), the Georgian Kings of Kartli and Kakheti. Nestled between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus, these eastern Georgian territories stood not merely as the focal point of Safavid Iran’s political aspirations but also attracted the attention of Ottoman and Russian imperial strategies. The bi-centennial discord involving Georgian monarchs and their Muslim liege lords transcended conventional political and martial realms, seeping into the spheres of cultural and religious discourse. Within this context, the religious affinities of Georgian subordinates crystallised into a pivotal aspect of the Safavid-Georgian interactions, precipitating the evolution of divergent, fabricated religious affiliations. The Georgian-Persian bilingual documents furnish an invaluable comparative lens to juxtapose the variant religious portrayals of a single Georgian King, in his role as a Safavid Viceroy.","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893591","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230147
Nicola Melis
{"title":"Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire, written by Minawi, Mostafa","authors":"Nicola Melis","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896731","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230148
Michele Bernardini
{"title":"Nasledie Kamala Khudžandi na zapade, Rukopisi Kamala Khužandi o ego tvorčestve, written by Heiser, Aleksander and Mirzoyunus, Matluba","authors":"Michele Bernardini","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"42 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139897167","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230149
Michele Bernardini
{"title":"The Medici Oriental Press: Knowledge and Cultural Transfer around 1600, edited by Eckhard Leuschner and Gerhard Wolf","authors":"Michele Bernardini","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"37 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896380","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230144
Pejman Abdolmohammadi
{"title":"The Social and Political Thought of Sayyed ʿAli Moḥammad Širāzi, the Bāb","authors":"Pejman Abdolmohammadi","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230144","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Sayyid ʿAli Muḥammad Širāzi (1819–50), known as “the Bāb”, is one of the most important modernizers of the 19th century in Iran. He is one of the first thinkers, within the Islamic thought’s modern framework, who challenged the forces of tradition such as the Shiite clergy and the Persian absolute monarchy by offering a new religious view, which went beyond Islamic religion. This article, after a brief reconstruction of the intellectual biography of the Bāb, will analyse his social and political thought, highlighting his main ideas regarding the role of rationality; the role of education and pedagogy; the economy and industrialization; the environment and the importance of civic cohabitation. The article will focus on Bāb’s views concerning the role of the women in the society and the abolition of the clergy from the religious sphere. This work will also show how Bāb’s thought contributed, together with secular and Islamic reformist intellectuals, to the Iranian constitutional revolution (Mašrūṭe) in the early 20th century.","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"159 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139897048","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230140
Lorenzo Riccardi
{"title":"“He would Thunder from an Artificial Sky, as Salmoneus”: Constantine Komnenodoukas’ Patronage of a ‘Persian’ soufa in Naupaktos (ca. 1220)","authors":"Lorenzo Riccardi","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230140","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Around 1220, Constantine Komnenodoukas undertook the construction of an unconventional building in Naupaktos, Greece, referred to as a ‘Persian’ soufa. Information on this construction is contained in a letter written by the city’s metropolitan, John Apokaukos, who maintained an adversarial rapport with him. The soufa is described as a rectangular structure with two levels. In the higher one, reserved for Constantine and his retinue, a throne shaped as an episcopal throne was placed. Conversely, the lower level accommodated more humble guests who could only listen to him thundering like Salmoneus from an artificial sky. This architectural venture served as a symbolic manifestation of Constantine’s secular authority, deliberately positioned in contrast to the ecclesiastical figure of the bishop. Noteworthy is Constantine’s deliberate appropriation of ideas, forms, and language acquired during his sojourn in Asia Minor several years before. The resulting structure stands as a singular manifestation, representing a distinctive historical juncture influenced by the personality of Constantine Komnenodoukas, wherein elements of both Byzantine and Islamic art are combined.","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"48 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896338","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230145
Nicola Melis
{"title":"Ottoman Law of War and Peace: The Ottoman Empire and its Tributaries from the North of the Danube, written by Panaite, Viorel","authors":"Nicola Melis","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"94 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896371","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}
Eurasian StudiesPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1163/24685623-20230141
Stefano Pellò
{"title":"The Black Stone and the City of Light: Devotional Cityscapes and the Poetics of “Idolatry” in Matan Lāl Āfarīn Persian Mas̱nawī on Vārāṇasī (1778–9)","authors":"Stefano Pellò","doi":"10.1163/24685623-20230141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-20230141","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores a hitherto unstudied Persian masnawī in praise of the sacred city of Vāraṇāsī, the Kāšī-stut (a phonetically Persianized variant of kāśī stuti, “Hymn to Vārāṇasī”) composed in 1778–9 by a little known Kāyastha scribe from Allahabad, Matan Lāl Āfarīn. The text, is an original poetic transposition of the Hindu religious landscape of Vārāṇasī in Persian verse, conjuring classical and post-classical Persian poetic conventions on the non-Islamic sphere and Sanskrit models such as the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, the Kāśīrahasya or other māhātmyas, and containing an impressive amount of descriptions (sometimes very technical) of idols, temples, pilgrimages, devotees, ascetics, the Ganges and so on. In view of the extraordinary value of the document (from the historical as well as from the literary side) the main aim of the article is not only to discuss the complex socio-cultural entanglements of the treatment of “idolatry” by a late eighteenth-century Hindu poet of Persian, but also, at the same time, to present, as far as I know for the first time, an important Persian document on early modern Vārāṇasī hitherto completely ignored by scholars. The study of the text against the background of contemporary trends in Persian poetry, in South Asia as well as in Iran, will, moreover, provide us with a proper set of interpretative tools for reading what we should begin to call the Hindu Persian literature of the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":517253,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896368","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}