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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Editor’s Note
Editor’s Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Religious Landscape
1. Converts, Apostates, and Polytheists
I. Confessions of an Armenian Convert: The I‘tirafnama of Abkar (ʿAli Akbar) Armani (Rudi Matthee)
II. Conversion, Apostasy, and Relations Between Muslims and Non-Muslims: Fatwas of the Ottoman Shaykh al-Islams (Nikolay Antov)
III. The Night Debates at Jahangir’s Court: ʿAbd al-Sattar’s Majalis-i Jahangiri (Corinne Lefèvre)
2. Heretics, Polytheists, and the Path of the Righteous
I. The Shiʿa Path of the Righteous: The Strength of Akhbarism in Safavid Iran (Maryam Moazzen)
II. Ottoman Religious Rulings Concerning the Safavids: Ebussuud Efendi’s Fatwas (Abdurrahman Atçıl)
III. A Mughal Debate About Jain Asceticism (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 (Ata Anzali)
II. The Worldview of a Sufi in the Ottoman Realm: Hakiki and His Book of Guidance (F. Betul Yavuz)
III. Sufism and the Divine Law: Ahmad Sirhindi’s Ruminations (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 (Hani Khafipour)
II. Kingship and Legitimacy in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire (Hüseyin Yılmaz)
III. The Millennial and Saintly Sovereignty of Emperor Shah Jahan According to a Court Sufi (A. Azfar Moin)
5. The King’s Deathbed: Coronation, Execution, and Fratricide
I. In the Shadow of Shah ʿAbbas: The Succession of Shah Safi (r. 1629–1642) (Sholeh A. Quinn)
II. The Ottoman Conception of Sovereignty and Succession: Mustafa Ali’s Essence of History (Kunh al-Akhbar) (Zahit Atçıl)
III. The Way of Tradition and the Path of Innovation: Aurangzeb and Dara Shukuh’s Struggle for the Mughal Throne (Jane Mikkelson)
6. A Tale of Three Cities: Diplomacy and Conquest
I. Imperial Geopolitics and the Otiose Quest for Qandahar (Hani Khafipour)
II. The Ottoman Conquest of Buda(pest): Sultan Suleiman’s Imperial Letter of Victory (Zahit Atçıl)
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 (Sajjad Rizvi)
II. Philosophia Ottomanica: Jalal al-Din Davani on Establishing the Existence of the Necessary Being (Ahab Bdaiwi)
III. Philosophy and Legal Theory: The Musallam al-thubut of Muhibballah al-Bihari and Its Commentary by ʿAbd al-ʿAli Bahr al-ʿUlum (Asad Q. Ahmad)
8. Lettrists, Alchemists, and Astrologers: The Occult Sciences
I. The Occult Sciences in Safavid Iran (Matthew Melvin-Koushki)
II. A Commentary on The Secret of Ta-Ha by the Pseudo-Eşrefoǧlu Rumi (Tuna Artun)
III. The Occult Sciences at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth Century (Eva Orthmann)
Part IV. Literature and the Arts
9. Three Poets and the Three Literary Climes
I. Selections from the Poetry of Muhtasham Kashani (Paul Losensky)
II. The Poet ʿAzmizade Haleti and the Transformation of Ottoman Literature in the Seventeenth Century (Berat Açıl)
III. Mughal Sanskrit Literature: The Book of War and the Treasury of Compassion (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 (Maryam Moazzen)
II. Imperial Patronage of Literature in the Ottoman World, 1400–1600 (Murat Umut Inan)
III. A Letter of Advice from a Mughal Gentleman to His Son (Rajeev Kinra)
11. Painters, Calligraphers, and Collectors
I. Reading a Painting: Sultan-Muhammad’s The Court of Gayumars (Sheila Blair)
II. The Making of a Legendary Calligrapher: Textual Portraits of Sheikh Hamdullah (Esra Akın-Kıvanç)
III. Deccani Seals and Scribal Notations: Sources for the Study of Indo-Persian Book Arts and Collecting (c. 1400–1680) (Keelan Overton and Jake Benson)
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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