دانلود کتاب The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities

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Contents\nEditor’s Note\nEditor’s Acknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPart I. The Religious Landscape\n1. Converts, Apostates, And Polytheists\nIntroduction\nI. Confessions Of An Armenian Convert: The I‘Tirafnama Of Abkar (ʿali Akbar) Armani\nII. Conversion, Apostasy, And Relations Between Muslims And Non-Muslims: Fatwas Of The Ottoman Shaykh Al-Islams\nIII. The Night Debates At Jahangir’s Court: ʿabd Al-Sattar’s Majalis-I Jahangiri\n2. Heretics, Polytheists, And The Path Of The Righteous\nIntroduction\nI. The Shiʿa Path Of The Righteous: The Strength Of Akhbarism In Safavid Iran\nII. Ottoman Religious Rulings Concerning The Safavids: Ebussuud Efendi’s Fatwas\nIII. A Mughal Debate About Jain Asceticism\n3. The Zealot, The Sufi, And The Quest For Spiritual Transcendence\nIntroduction\nI. Opposition To Sufism In Safavid Iran: A Debate Between Mulla Muhammad-Tahir Qummi And Mulla Muhammad-Taqi Majlisi\nII. The Worldview Of A Sufi In The Ottoman Realm: Hakiki And His Book Of Guidance\nIII. Sufism And The Divine Law: Ahmad Sirhindi’s Ruminations\nPart II. Political Culture\n4. Conceptions of Sovereignty: The Poet, the Scholar, and the Court Sufi\nIntroduction\nI. The Safavid Claim to Sovereignty According to a Court Bureaucrat\nII. Kingship and Legitimacy in the Sixteenth- Century Ottoman Empire\nIII. The Millennial and Saintly Sovereignty of Emperor Shah Jahan According to a Court Sufi\n5. The King’s Deathbed: Coronation, Execution, and Fratricide\nIntroduction\nI. In the Shadow of Shah ʿAbbas: The Succession of Shah Safi (r. 1629–1642)\nII. The Ottoman Conception of Sovereignty and Succession: Mustafa Ali’s Essence of History (Kunh al-Akhbar)\nIII. The Way of Tradition and the Path of Innovation: Aurangzeb and Dara Shukuh’s Struggle for the Mughal Throne\n6. A Tale of Three Cities: Diplomacy and Conquest\nIntroduction\nI. Imperial Geopolitics and the Otiose Quest for Qandahar\nII. The Ottoman Conquest of Buda(pest): Sultan Suleiman’s Imperial Letter of Victory\nIII. The Mughal Conquest of Chittor: Study of Akbar’s Letter of Victory\nPart III. Philosophical Inquiries\n7. Philosophy as a Way of Life\nIntroduction\nI. The Many Faces of Philosophy in the Safavid Age\nII. Philosophia Ottomanica: Jalal al-Din Davani on Establishing the Existence of the Necessary Being\nIII. Philosophy and Legal Theory: The Musallam al-thubut of Muhibballah al-Bihari and Its Commentary by ʿAbd al-ʿAli Bahr al-ʿUlum\n8. Lettrists, Alchemists, and Astrologers: The Occult Sciences\nIntroduction\nI. The Occult Sciences in Safavid Iran\nII. A Commentary on The Secret of Ta-Ha by the Pseudo-Eşrefoǧlu Rumi\nIII. The Occult Sciences at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth Century\nPart IV. Literature and the Arts\n9. Three Poets and the Three Literary Climes\nIntroduction\nI. Selections from the Poetry of Muhtasham Kashani\nII. The Poet ʿAzmizade Haleti and the Transformation of Ottoman Literature in the Seventeenth Century\nIII. Mughal Sanskrit Literature: The Book of War and the Treasury of Compassion\n10. Royal Patronage: A College, Poets, and the Making of an Imperial Secretary\nIntroduction\nI. The Leading Religious College in Early Modern Iran: Madrasa-yi Sultani and Its Endowment\nII. Imperial Patronage of Literature in the Ottoman World, 1400–1600\nIII. A Letter of Advice from a Mughal Gentleman to His Son\n11. Painters, Calligraphers, and Collectors\nIntroduction\nI. Reading a Painting: Sultan-Muhammad’s The Court of Gayumars\nII. The Making of a Legendary Calligrapher: Textual Portraits of Sheikh Hamdullah\nIII. Deccani Seals and Scribal Notations: Sources for the Study of Indo-Persian Book Arts and Collecting (c. 1400–1680)\nBibliography\nContributors\nIndex