Index
Abbasid Caliphate
26–28, 71, 73, 105, 108, 110–112
ʿAbbas Mirza (Qajar prince)
182, 184
Adab
86, 97, 98
Literature
46
ʿAjaʾeb
84
Ahmad Khan, Sayyed
227, 239
Urdu
Ajmer shrine
119–121
Ālāol
85–86, 96, 101–102
ʿAli ibn Abi Talib
27, 106
ʿAlid
loyalty
106
shrines
107–109, 114
Alexander the Great
65, 73
Akbar (Mughal Emperor)
53, 55, 77–78, 82, 106, 119–120
Andarz
36–37
Arabian Nights
91–92, 94, 104
Arakan
85, 97, 101, 103
ʿAruzi Samarqandi
34
ʿAwfi Bokhari, Mohammad
34–35
Ayyubids
109
Balʿami
67–68
Babur (Mughal Emperor)
40, 53, 76, 93, 117, 118
Baghdad
27–28, 73
Bengal, Bay of
96–97, 98
Bukhara
22, 33, 52, 67, 71, 150, 153
Buyids
108, 109
Caliphate
30–31
Central Asia
24–25, 67, 69
Cultural centers of
28, 67
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
59
Chaghatay
95
Chinggis Khan
106, 107, 112–113
Chinggisid lineage, ʿAlid line, alignment with
113
Chishti Sufi order
131
Ajmer shrine
Shaykh Moʿinuddin
119
Shrines
119–120
Comparative study of history
9–14
Dar al-Siyada
112–113
Dastgah
(
see Persian music
)
Delhi sultanate
71–72, 75–76, 77
Dowlatshah Samarqandi
17, 35
Dari
32, 34
Divan
(
see Secretarial class
)
Durrani Empire
125–128, 132–133
Hazarat-e Maʿsumiyya
East India Company
54–55, 56, 213–214
Economic Organization (ECO)
59
Fakhr al-Zamani, ʿAbd al-Nabi Qazvini
87, 94
Farmanfarma, Firuz Mirza
209, 210–215
Fath-ʿAli Shah Qajar
184
Fatimids
108
Ferdowsi
(
see Shahnameh
)
Floyer, Ernest
199–200
Genghis Khan
(
see Chinggis Khan
)
Ghazan Khan
112–113
Ghazi, Sayyed
121–122
Ghaznavids
71
Mahmud of Ghazna
Ghias al-Din Naqqash
51–52
Ghurids
71
Gladwin, Francis
56
Golestan
(
see Saʿdi
)
Golestan, Treaty of
188
Golkonda Sultanate
95, 97
Gondishapur
24
Great Game
56
Hafez
15, 42
Haji Bektash
121–122
Hazarat-e Maʿsumiyya
Definition of
126
Durranis, relationship with
160–161
Institutional economy of
142–143
Institutions and practices related to
138–142
Spiritual Geography of
135–138
Herat
28, 35, 36, 39–40, 51, 115–118
Hodgson, Marshall
3, 16–17, 63, 83
Venture of Islam
3, 17
Humayun (Mughal Emperor)
117–118
Ibn ʿArabi
122
Ibn Balkhi
72
Ibn Khaldun
27
Ilkhanids
32–33, 39–40, 51, 112–113
Interdisciplinary scholarship
8–9
Islamicate
63–64
Ismaʿil, Shah
116
Jami, ʿAbd al-Rahman
39
Vasefi, Zayn al-Din
Shrine, destruction of
115–118
Jones, William
57
Kabul
145, 148–150
Bala Hisar Citadel
149, 155–159
Shor Bazaar
133, 136, 153, 155–159
Shrines in
146–147
Kalyani inscription
80–81
Khataynameh
52
Khorasan
28
Kingship
(
padshahi, saltanat
)
30–31, 36, 72
King of kings
(
shahanshah
)
30
Mahābhārata
70, 78
Mahmud of Ghazni
70, 87–88, 93, 102
Mani
26
Manuchehr Khan (Moʿtamad al-Dawleh)
171–173, 175–176, 177, 184–187, 191
Mirza Gurgen Khan, relation to
183
Mashhad shrine
109–111
Humayun’s pilgrimage
117–118
Khwarazm Shah, patronage of
110–112
Mughals, influence upon
119–121
Safavid patronage of
114–115
Mehmed II
121–122
Middle East (as field of study)
60–62
Middle Persian
32, 34, 67
Pahlavi
Mir ʿEzzatullah
56
Mirror for Princes literature
68, 73–74
Persianate statecraft
Gurgen Khan, Mirza
179–181
Manuchehr Khan, relation to
183
Mongols
28, 68, 73–74, 105
Islam, conversion to
(
Ghazan Khan
)
112–113
Monshis
(
see Secretarial class
)
Moorcroft, William
56
Mughals
16, 29, 48, 52–53, 77
Timurids
Mulla Firuz
57
Muslim empires, early modern
16, 28–29, 105
Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids, Shaybanids, Timurids
Mongols, influence of
112
Nader Shah Afshar
125
Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi
132
Hazarat-e Maʿsumiyya
Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar
221, 245
Naskh
(
see Persianate calligraphy
)
Nastʿaliq
(
see Persianate calligraphy
)
Naurangi Darwaza
80
Newal Kishore publishing house
57
Nezam al-Molk
68
Nezami Ganjavi
68
Nizam of Hyderabad
222, 224, 226, 235, 242
Noqtavi
42–43
Ottomans
16, 28, 50–51
Imperial shrines
(
Haji Bektash, Sayyed Ghazi
)
121–123
Mausoleums
123
Padshahi
(
see Kingship
)
Pahlavi
(
see Middle Persian
)
Pax-Mongolica
(
see Ilkhanid era
)
Persian
Administration, as language of
30, 55, 67–69
Arabic, interactions with
20, 22–23, 27–28, 40–41, 67
Architecture
(
see Persianate architecture
)
Conservatism of, aesthetic and intellectual
219, 228–241
Cosmopolis
64–74
Decline in usage of
221–223, 250–251
Dictionaries
75–78
Geographical writing
37–38
Historical writing
68
Lingua franca, as
21–22, 69
Literary dictionaries
34–35
Literature and poetry
15–16, 34–41, 42, 67–69
Music
47–48
Non-religious character of
66, 83
Old elites, association with
223, 241–249
Prestige of
68–69
Resurgence under Islam
32
Sculpture
(
see Persianate sculpture
)
Persianate
Persianate World
Architecture
43, 44–45, 63–64, 78–79
Calligraphy
46–47, 51
Culture, development of
24–29
Culture, heritage of
17–18
Food culture
48–50
Governance
(
see Persianate statecraft
)
Identity
17–18, 34
Material culture
43–50
Painting and pictorial art
45–46, 51–52
Sculpture
79–80
Statecraft
16, 29–30, 31, 32–33, 50–51, 205–207, 212, 215
Persianate World
Persian cosmopolis
Academic study of
1–6, 9–14, 59–62
Antinomian trends, as feature of
41–43, 204
Constructed category, as
197–198, 215
Environmental characteristics of
43–44
European imperial expansion in
54–59, 207–208
Geographical boundaries of
23–24, 32, 34
Linguistic practices, as feature of
201–203
Nationalism, impact of
57–58
Nomenclature for
19–21, 22
Scholars of
19
Shiʿism, as feature of
203–204
Trade, role of
51, 53, 67
Urban centers of
28, 34, 39–40
Persian-Sanskrit lexicon
81, 82
Pollock, Sheldon
(
see Sanskrit cosmopolis
)
Qanat
44
Qezilbash
116–117, 150
Qotb Moshtari
98
Radif
(
see Persianate music
)
Rāmāyaṇa
70, 78, 80
Rumi
37–38, 68, 122
Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
183–184
Saʿdi Shirazi, Mosleh al-Din
38, 39, 57
Safavids
16, 29, 50, 60
Shiʿism
Imperial shrines
114–118
Mausoleums
123
Safi al-Din Ardabili, Shaykh
114, 118
Safineh-ye Solaymani
99–101
Saheb Qeran (Lord of Conjunction)
106
Saltanat
(
see Kingship
)
Samanid dynasty
67, 69, 71
Samarqandi, ʿAbd al-Razzaq
79
Sanskrit Cosmopolis
64–69
Non-religious character of
65
Persian cosmopolis, relationship with
66–68, 70, 74, 80–81, 83
Vernacular languages, encroachment of
82–83
Sasanian Empire
24, 47, 72–73
relations with
Arabian Peninsula
26
Buddhist world
24–25
Central Asia
25
Hellenistic culture
24
Hindu world
24–25
Roman world
25–26
Sayf al-Moluk (narrative)
86–89
Components of
89–90
Diffusion of
91–96, 97–98
South Asian vernaculars of
95–96
Sayyed ʿAli Akbar
(
see Khataynameh
)
Secretarial class
30, 55
Seljuqs
72, 109, 110
Shah Jahan
106, 121
Shahrokh
79
Shahanshah (title)
30
Shahrashub (urban sedition)
38–39, 40
Shahnameh
36–37, 57, 69
Shaybanids
16, 29
Shiʿism
Under Safavids
29, 50, 60, 115
Persianate world, relevance for understanding
203–204
Shivaji
82–83
Silk Road
25, 51, 69
Sirhindi, Shaykh Ahmad
125
Hazarat, lineage of
126, 131–134
Shuʿubiyya
18, 32
Solayman (Solomon)
88, 102
Solh-e Koll (Universal Peace)
124
Sufi, Sufism
41–43, 106
Chishti, Naqshbandi
Convents (khaneqah)
37, 42
Orders
42, 119
Shrines
42, 107–108, 114
Sultan (office)
30–31, 71–73
Tabriz
34, 39–40
Tahmasb (Tahmasp) I, Shah
40, 50, 114, 117–118, 119
Taj Mahal
78, 106, 121
Tbilisi
171, 175, 177, 179, 181–182, 186, 187, 189, 190
Timur
106, 114
Timurids
24, 28, 39–40, 51–52, 106
Imperial shrines
118–121
Mausoleums
123
Tipu Sultan
55
Torkmanchai, Treaty of
188
Transnational histories
4–5
Tusi, Nasir al-Din
73
Umayyads
105, 108
Urdu
Ascendancy of
217–220
Colonial government, strengthened by
217, 219–220
Progress and reform, association with
221–222, 227–228
Travelogue, earliest example of
227
Vasefi, Zayn al-Din
115–117
Vaziri, Ahmad ʿAli Khan
209–212
Vijayanagara
63–64, 78–79
Waqf
45
Wine
Persianate food culture
Production of
49
Social practices associated with
49
Zendiq
31
Zoroastrianism
24