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• Introduction
• 1. Iran's Foreign Policy: History, Geo-politics and Diplomacy as Determiners
• 2. Iran and the United States of America
• 3. The Conundrum: Iran's Relations with Regional Powers
• 4. Power and Rivalry: Iran and the Arab World
• 5. Iran's Complex Relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan
• 6. Prospects and Progress: Iran's Evolving Relationship with Russia and China
• 7. Iran's Engagement with Central Asia and South Caucasus
• 8. Pivotal Geography: India and Iran Relations Present Realities.
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This book analyses Iran's foreign policy in order to better assess its relations with India and the factors that are propelling the two nations closer. In a region susceptible to power plays, how far can India-Iran partnership go? This book will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Iranian Politics and Iranian Foreign Policy. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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• Introduction : Indo-Persian encounters in Southeast Asia
• Offshore
• Of elephants, rubies, and teak
• Immortal city
• Forest worlds
• In the wilderness of Pali
• Epilogue

"The City and the Wilderness tells the story of a lost world of encounters. It recounts the journeys and micro-histories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their contacts with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral during the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under mounting British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Revealing an archive of colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with the Orientalist pursuits of the East India Company, The City and the Wilderness uncovers the fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : Indo-Persian encounters in Southeast Asia
• Offshore
• Of elephants, rubies, and teak
• Immortal city
• Forest worlds
• In the wilderness of Pali
• Epilogue

The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.
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• Acknowledgments
• Note to the Reader
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction to Iranian Mobilities and Persianate Mediations in the Deccan / Keelan Overton
• 2. Iran and the Doors to the Deccan, ca. 1400-1650: Some Aspects / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• 3. Excerpt on Yusuf Beg 'Adil Khan, from Rafi' al-Din Shirazi's Tazkirat al-Muluk / Translated by Wheeler Thackston
• 4. Ghariban in the Deccan: Migration, Elite Mobility, and the Making and Unmaking of an Early Modern State / Roy S. Fischel
• 5. Dynastic Self-Fashioning and the Arts of the Pen: Sufi and Calligraphy Networks between Fifteenth-Century Shiraz and Bidar / Peyvand Firouzeh
• 6. From Iran to the Deccan: Architectural Transmission and the Madrasa of Mahmud Gavan at Bidar / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
• 7. Qur'an Manuscript No. 106 Copied by 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni al-Shirazi and Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza by Ibrahim Qutb Shah / Maryam Habibi, translated by Arash Khazeni
• 8. Vaqfnama of Ibrahim Qutb Shah in the 'Abd al-Qadir Qur'an Manuscript Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza / Translated by Jake Benson
• 9. Faith and Fate: The Khalili Falnama and Shi'i Identity in Golconda / Rachel Parikh
• 10. Indo-Persian Histories from the Object Out: The St Andrews Qur'an Manuscript between Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Deccani Worlds / Keelan Overton and Kristine Rose-Beers (with contributions by Bruce Wannell)
• 11. The Qit'at-i Khushkhatt Album: Authenticity and Provenance / Jake Benson
• 12. Khalilullah "Padishah of the Pen": Royal Scribe and Ambassador of Shah 'Abbas and Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II / Hamidreza Ghelichkhani, translated by Kimia Maleki and Jake Benson
• 13. Forging a Canon of Dakhni Literature: Translations and Retellings from Persian / Sunil Sharma
• 14. On Heroes and History: Responding to the Shahnama in the Deccan, 1500-1800 / Subah Dayal
• Glossary-Index.
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In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.
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• Introduction: cosmopolitanism, courtliness and ethics in the Deccani Sultanates
• Part I. Courtly Society: 1. Courtly disposition
• 2. Networks, patrons and friends
• 3. Courts, merchants and commodities
• Part II. Courtly Skills: 4. Scribal skills
• 5. Esoteric skills
• 6. Martial skills
• Concluding remarks.
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In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of striking ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. People used multifaceted trans-regional networks - mercantile, kinship, friendship and intellectual - to move across the Persian-speaking world and to find employment at the Deccan courts. This movement, Emma J. Flatt argues, was facilitated by the existence of a shared courtly disposition. Engagement in courtly skills such as letter-writing, perfume-making, astrological divination, performing magic, sword-fighting and wrestling thus became a route to both worldly success and ethical refinement. Using a diverse range of treatises, chronicles, poetry and letters, Flatt unpicks the ways this challenged networks of acceptable behaviour and knowledge in the Indo-Islamicate courtly world - and challenges the idea of perpetual hostility between Islam and Hinduism in Indian history.
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• Editor's Note Editor's Acknowledgments Introduction, by Hani Khafipour Part I. The Religious Landscape
• 1. Converts, Apostates, and Polytheists I. Confessions of an Armenian Convert: The I'tirafnama of Abkar ('Ali Akbar) Armani, by Rudi Matthee II. Conversion, Apostasy, and Relations Between Muslims and Non-Muslims: Fatwas of the Ottoman Shaykh al-Islams, by Nikolay Antov III. The Night Debates at Jahangir's Court'Abd al-Sattar's Majalis-i Jahangiri, by Corinne Lefevre
• 2. Heretics, Polytheists, and the Path of the Righteous I. The Shi'a Path of the Righteous: The Strength of Akhbarism in Safavid Iran, by Maryam Moazzen II. Ottoman Religious Rulings Concerning The Safavids: Ebussuud Efendi's Fatwas, by Abdurrahman Atcil III. A Mughal Debate About Jain Asceticism, by Audrey Truschke
• 3. The Zealot, the Sufi, and the Quest for Spiritual Transcendence I. Opposition to Sufism in Safavid Iran: A Debate Between Mulla Muhammad-Tahir Qummi and Mulla Muhammad-Taqi Majlisi, by Ata Anzali II. The Worldview of a Sufi in the Ottoman Realm: Hakiki and His Book of Guidance, by F. Betul Yavuz III. Sufism and the Divine Law: Ahmad Sirhindi's Ruminations, by Arthur F. Buehler Part II. Political Culture
• 4. Conceptions of Sovereignty: The Poet, the Scholar, and the Court Sufi I. The Safavid Claim to Sovereignty According to a Court Bureaucrat, by Hani Khafipour II. Kingship and Legitimacy in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, by Huseyin Yilmaz III. The Millennial and Saintly Sovereignty of Emperor Shah Jahan According to a Court Sufi, by A. Azfar Moin
• 5. The King's Deathbed: Coronation, Execution, and Fratricide I. In the Shadow of Shah 'Abbas: The Succession of Shah Safi (r. 1629-1642), by Sholeh A. Quinn II. The Ottoman Conception of Sovereignty and Succession: Mustafa Ali's Essence of History (Kunh al-Akhbar), by Zahit Atcil III. The Way of Tradition and the Path of Innovation: Aurangzeb and Dara Shukuh's Struggle for the Mughal Throne, by Jane Mikkelson
• 6. A Tale of Three Cities: Diplomacy and Conquest I. Imperial Geopolitics and the Otiose Quest for Qandahar, by Hani Khafipour II. The Ottoman Conquest of Buda(pest): Sultan Suleiman's Imperial Letter of Victory, by Zahit Atcil III. The Mughal Conquest of Chittor: Study of Akbar's Letter of Victory, Taymiya R. Zaman Part III. Philosophical Inquiries
• 7. Philosophy as a Way of Life I. The Many Faces of Philosophy in the Safavid Age, by Sajjad Rizvi II. Philosophia Ottomanica: Jalal al-Din Davani on Establishing the Existence of the Necessary Being, by Ahab Bdaiwi III. Philosophy and Legal Theory: The Musallam al-thubut of Muhibballah al-Bihari and Its Commentary by 'Abd al-'Ali Bahr al-'Ulum, by Asad Q. Ahmad
• 8. Lettrists, Alchemists, and Astrologers: The Occult Sciences I. The Occult Sciences in Safavid Iran, by Matthew Melvin-Koushki II. A Commentary on The Secret of Ta-Ha by the Pseudo-EsrefoGlu Rumi, by Tuna Artun III. The Occult Sciences at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth Century, by Eva Orthmann Part IV. Literature and the Arts
• 9. Three Poets and the Three Literary Climes I. Selections from the Poetry of Muhtasham Kashani, by Paul Losensky II. The Poet 'Azmizade Haleti and the Transformation of Ottoman Literature in the Seventeenth Century, by Berat Acil III. Mughal Sanskrit Literature: The Book of War and the Treasury of Compassion, by Audrey Truschke
• 10. Royal Patronage: A College, Poets, and the Making of an Imperial Secretary I. The Leading Religious College in Early Modern Iran: Madrasa-yi Sultani and Its Endowment, by Maryam Moazzen II. Imperial Patronage of Literature in the Ottoman World, 1400-1600, by Murat Umut Inan III. A Letter of Advice from a Mughal Gentleman to His Son, by Rajeev Kinra
• 11. Painters, Calligraphers, and Collectors I. Reading a Painting: Sultan-Muhammad's The Court of Gayumars, by Sheila Blair II. The Making of a Legendary Calligrapher: Textual Portraits of Sheikh Hamdullah, by Esra Akin-Kivanc III. Deccani Seals and Scribal Notations: Sources for the Study of Indo-Persian Book Arts and Collecting (c. 1400-1680), by Keelan Overton and Jake Benson Bibliography List of Contributors Index.
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In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in these three empires left a lasting legacy on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the Near East and India. This volume is a comprehensive sourcebook of newly translated texts that shed light on the intertwined histories and cultures of these communities, presenting a wide range of source material spanning literature, philosophy, religion, politics, mysticism, and visual art in thematically organized chapters. Scholarly essays by leading researchers provide historical context for closer analyses of a lesser-known era and a framework for further research and debate. The volume aims to provide a new model for the study and teaching of the region's early modern history that stands in contrast to the prevailing trend of examining this interconnected past in isolation.
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Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and especially Central Asia and the Iranian plateau. Richard M. Eaton tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality, as he traces the rise of Persianate culture, a many-faceted transregional world connected by ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become progressively indigenized in the time of the great Mughals (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries). Eaton brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture--an equally rich and transregional complex that continued to flourish and grow throughout this period--and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and a host of regional states. This long-term process of cultural interaction is profoundly reflected in the languages, literatures, cuisines, attires, religions, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, and architecture--and more--of South Asia.
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BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Download Levison Wood's Silk Road odyssey, Eastern Horizons, onto your splash-proof kindle. Then read on a sun-lounger, between dozes, wishing you were doing those terribly adventurous things - which being secretly glad you're not.' Duncan Craig, Sunday Times Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history degree in the bag, an army career already planned and a shoestring budget of GBP750 - including for the flight home - he was determined to find out more about the countries of the Caucasus and beyond - and meet the people who lived and worked there. EASTERN HORIZONS is a true traveller's tale in the tradition of the best of the genre, populated by a cast of eccentric characters; from mujahideen fighters to the Russian mafia. Along the way he meets some people who showed great hospitality, while others would rather have murdered him... This book confirms that Levison Wood, Winner of the 2016 Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book Of The Year Award, has indeed 'breathed new life into adventure travel ' (Michael Palin).
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Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history degree in the bag, an army career already planned and a shoestring budget of GBP750 - including for the flight home - he was determined to find out more about the countries of the Caucasus and beyond - and meet the people who lived and worked there. EASTERN HORIZONS is a true traveller's tale in the tradition of the best of the genre, populated by a cast of eccentric characters; from mujahideen fighters to the Russian mafia. Along the way he meets some people who showed great hospitality, while others would rather have murdered him... This book confirms that Levison Wood, Winner of the 2016 Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book Of The Year Award, has indeed 'breathed new life into adventure travel ' (Michael Palin).
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