Index
bābā ʿAbdalraḥmān, influential mystic and courtier of uzun Ḥasan
322, 328–329
ʿAbdalraḥmān Jāmī, Timurid scholar and courtier
dedication of Abīwardī’s works to
45–47, 49–50
dedication of works to sulṭān Yaʿqūb
299, 353n375
exclusionist shīʿī currents of Islam (rawāfiḍ) and
349, 358–363, 381–384
pilgrimage of
186n465, 187n467, 188n475
Abhar
208, 231–232
Abīwardī, Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn, Timurid and Aqquyunlu courtier
43–56, 63, 65n58, 83n103, 85, 100–102, 171, 381–384
Abū Bakr Ṭihrānī, ‘Turkmen’ courtier and historiographer
age of members of the Aqquyunlu concatenation of rulers
54n28, 166–167
biography of ‘Turkmen’ courtiers
142n299, 175n430, 181n447, 198n502, 218nn570–573, 219n574, 229–230, 237n640, 287n117
description of courtly representation in the qishlāq
119n217, 120n221, 127n239, 164–165, 196n500, 198, 202–203, 207–208, 214n558, 231n617, 232, 235n630, 248n673, 258–259, 310n257
description of courtly representation in the yaylāq
56, 61–63, 65, 94–96, 98–100, 106n172, 266–267, 271n45, 332
description of ruler’s patronage of trans-regional infrastructure
116, 174n425, 175n427, 175n431, 187–188
invitation to India by Maḥmūd Gāwān
50n23
portrayal of Aqquyunlu ancestors
269–270, 273, 276–277, 280, 286, 346–347
preordination of political successes
322–323, 328
reference to Aqquyunlu exiles
83n103, 84n105, 136n275
treatment of different linguistic registers and matrices
262–264
Abū Saʿīd, Timurid ruler
123, 142n299, 193, 208, 314, 318, 320–321, 323
ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī, scholar
359, 362
Ahlat
3, 161, 259–260
Ahtamar
276
göde Aḥmad bīk b. ughurlu Muḥammad b. uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
290, 294, 306–307, 314, 326, 352n371
Ahwāz
3, 81
qāḍī ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī, Aqquyunlu courtier
141–142, 196, 200, 355–356
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Bayhaqī, Aqquyunlu courtier
108
ʿĀlamshāh bt. Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
145, 154
Aleppo
3, 83n103, 115n206, 135n269, 136, 158, 188n475
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī see ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn
ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān Aqquyunlu, father of uzun Ḥasan
346–347
ṭūr ʿAlī bīk, Aqquyunlu ancestor
272n49, 273–274
ʿAlī bīk b. Khalīl b. uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
65–67, 69, 70n72, 90, 94, 96, 146–149
ʿAlī bīk Purnāk, Aqquyunlu general and patron
240, 244
ʿAlī-shīr Nawāʾī, Timurid scholar and courtier
261, 276n66
Alwand Aqquyunlu
284, 291, 295
Ambrosio Contarini see Contarini
amīr Khusraw Dihlawī see under Khusraw
Anatolia
3, 44, 80, 84, 125n234, 207, 294, 319, 320n287, 323–324, 329, 334n329, 370
Angiolello, Venetian scholar
96n147, 104n168, 121n224, 136n275, 263–264
Arabic, courtly significance of the linguistic matrix of
60, 73, 77–80, 83, 91, 175–184, 192, 219, 233–235, 256–265
Arabs
44n8, 106n172, 143, 177, 179, 182, 184, 254, 266, 271, 369
Arapgir
159n381
Aras
99, 237n641
Ardabīl
3, 58n37, 161, 204, 263n22, 275, 319, 353n380, 369, 371
Argavand
167n408
Armenian Christians in the ‘Turkmen’ realms
128, 170, 204–207, 260, 311, 330–348
Aspān b. qara Yūsuf Qaraquyunlu
271, 283n102, 290n122, 295n175, 318, 321, 345, 346n355, 348
Astarābād see Gurgān / Astarābād
Avnik
99
bābā ʿAbdalraḥmān see under ʿAbdalraḥmān
Baghdād
3, 106n172, 116, 161, 174n425, 175, 177, 180, 184, 187n467, 190–191, 193, 258, 272, 284, 290n122, 295n175, 296, 317, 318n277, 320, 323, 331n321, 332, 348, 358–360, 362–363
Bahrām Gūr, pre-Islamic Sasanian ruler
65n57, 69, 71, 88–90, 98, 267
Bandar ʿAbbās / Jarūn
3, 9, 280n84
Barbaro, Giosafat, Venetian envoy
70n73, 75n81, 85, 96, 103–107, 109–110, 124n232, 126–127, 173, 232, 248–254, 263, 265, 278, 329, 333–337, 341–342, 344, 356–357
Baṣra
3, 81, 99, 161
Bāyandur bīk b. Rustam Aqquyunlu, Aqquyunlu general
114n204, 162–170, 202n520, 259–260, 316–317, 362n413, 374
Bāyandur, eponymous founder of the Bāyandurī lineage of Aqquyunlu rulers
273, 280, 286
Bayhaqī see ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Bayhaqī
Bāysunghur b. sulṭān Yaʿqūb Aqquyunlu
88, 90, 94n142, 275, 284, 290, 297–298, 300, 364, 385–388, 390, 391n32
bih būd, numismatic legend on surcharges
262
Bingöl
98–99, 117n212
Bitlis
161, 261, 267n36, 284, 296–298, 344, 374
Black Sea
99, 170
pīr Būdāq see under pīr
Buqʿa-yi Abū Masʿūd in Iṣfahān, displaying inscriptions 895 Iṣfahān a and b
83n102, 149n338, 150, 212–215, 217, 234n627, 235–240, 243, 245–246
Cairo
3, 43, 50, 51, 83n103, 113n202, 118, 125n234, 133, 137n277, 156–158, 193, 210n549, 222nn584–585, 324n295
Caspian provinces
87, 99, 318–319
Caterino Zeno see Zeno
Central Asia
11, 61, 84n104, 170, 250, 256, 265–266, 268–269, 272–275, 278n79, 279, 286, 392
China
158, 170, 250, 263
Contarini, Ambrosio, Venetian envoy
53–54n28, 98n151, 98n152, 123, 124n232, 198n505, 214n558, 232
Christians in the ‘Turkmen’ realms
85n108, 102, 117, 132–134, 136, 164, 204–207, 252, 260–261, 276, 301, 305, 311 –312, 314, 330–349, 350n364, 370, 378
Damascus
3, 118, 136n275, 157–158, 204n523
Darb-i Imām shrine in Iṣfahān, displaying inscriptions 857 Iṣfahān a–d
123n229, 151, 212–214, 217–230, 245–247, 308n253, 353n379, 353n381
darwīsh Qāsim see under Qāsim
zāwiya-yi Darb-i Kushk, entrance portal to a foundation complex in Iṣfahān displaying inscription 902 Iṣfahān
149n338, 151, 212–217, 236, 240–246, 353n381
Dawwānī see Jalāl al-Dīn Dawwānī
Daylamistān
81, 87, 318
Despina khātūn, wife of uzun Ḥasan
134–137
Diyarbakır
3, 111, 115n206, 120nn220–221, 130n250, 150n340, 161, 273, 281–282, 284, 285n109, 292n139, 293–298, 307n253, 345n349, 346–348, 364–365
Egypt
3, 62n45, 80, 83, 86n111, 102n163, 157–158, 162, 169–170, 184, 188–189, 194, 200, 206, 222
Erciş
281n90, 344
Ergani
159nn378–381
Erzincan
3, 161, 262, 284, 295n175, 297–298
Erzurum
3, 161, 295n175, 297
Faḍlallāh Rūzbihānī Khunjī, Aqquyunlu courtier and historiographer
biography of ‘Turkmen’ courtiers
202n520, 287n117, 350n364
description of courtly representation in the qishlāq
119n217, 131, 133, 232, 352n371
description of courtly representation in the yaylāq
68–94, 99n155,
historiographical method and style
40, 164–165, 256–257, 266–268, 275, 299, 310–313, 323–325, 327, 332, 343, 364, 385–392
description of ruler’s patronage of trans-regional infrastructure
59, 61–63, 174n425, 184, 189–192
polemics against shaykh Ḥaydar Ṣafawī
330, 368–372
Fārs
3, 54, 67, 70, 85, 89n122, 96n147, 107–110, 148, 312, 374
Fulād sulṭān b. Aspān Qaraquyunlu
290n122
Georgia
3, 45, 170–171, 252–253, 331–332
Gevaş / Waṣṭān
161, 162, 168n408, 284, 297, 344
al-Ghiyāth, non-courtly historiographer in Baghdād
9, 83n103, 86, 164, 175n427, 184n452, 185n456, 186–187, 271–272, 278n76, 317–321, 323–325, 352n371, 354n383
Gīlān
3, 81, 87, 162, 294, 318
Giosafat Barbaro see Barbaro, Giosafat
göde Aḥmad see under Aḥmad
Great mosque of Ardabīl, displaying inscriptions 878 and 879 Ardabīl
204n523, 319, 353n380
Great mosque of Baghdād
360n401
Great mosque of Diyarbakır, displaying inscription 874 Diyarbakır
150n340, 307n253, 364–365
Great mosque of Erzincan, formerly displaying inscription 897 or earlier Erzincan
204
Great mosque of Gurgān / Astarābād, displaying inscription 862 Gurgān / Astarābād
175n430, 183n450, 203n522, 307n253, 353
Great mosque of Iṣfahān, displaying inscription 880 Iṣfahān
150, 212–214, 230–232, 234, 242n659, 245–246, 353n380
Great mosque of Yazd, displaying inscriptions 861, 863, and 875 Yazd
204n523, 307n253, 353n379
Gulābī bīk Mawṣillu, eponymous brother of the founder of the Bey or Gülâbi Hamamı in Erzincan
173n424
Gulshanī see Ibrāhīm Gulshanī
Gurgān / Astarābād
3, 161, 190, 203, 353
Ḥadīth
39n94, 123n228, 141, 146–147, 176n434, 198, 200–201, 225, 234n637, 236, 239–241, 243, 317, 325, 332n324, 351, 356–357, 366, 368, 388
Hamadān
78, 161, 284, 297
Ḥamza b. ʿUthmān Aqquyunlu
54n28, 150n340, 233n622, 271, 284, 345n349, 346–348
Ḥamza b. Jahāngīr Aqquyunlu
167n408
Ḥanafī School of Law
72, , 76, 314, 360, 363–365
Harput
3, 159n379, 159n381, 280n87, 288n119, 346
qāḍī Ḥasan, Aqquyunlu courtier and jurisprudent
142n300, 199, 276n67, 328
uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
age
53–54n28
career of courtiers
68, 168n408, 175, 261, 287, 317n276, 355–356, 360
chancellery composed at the court of
60n40, 171, 193, 306n250, 314n269
coins of
94–95, 284, 290–295
courtly representation in the qishlāq
115, 119n217, 120n221, 121–131, 133n265, 134–136, 141–142, 149n338, 150, 152–154, 159–162, 164–165, 173, 196–203, 204n524, 206, 207n540, 208–210, 212–213, 214n558, 218, 230–235, 246, 248–254, 281, 307n253, 309–311, 334, 337, 345–347, 352n371, 353, 364–365
courtly representation in the yaylāq
56, 62–63, 65n56, 75n81, 94–96, 98n152, 103–107, 267, 282–283, 332
legacy of
374–376
patronage of trans-regional infrastructure
114n204, 116, 187–189, 194
preordination of success
318–330
utterances of
262–264, 313–314
Ḥasanʿalī b. Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
175, 207, 219, 237n640, 291, 293, 345
Hasankeyf
83n103, 115, 161, 168n408, 206, 238n644, 284, 294, 297–298, 319
Hasht Bihisht palace in Tabrīz
117–127, 139, 157–158, 248, 334, 343
shaykh Ḥaydar Ṣafawī
58n37, 82, 327, 330, 368–372
Herāt
3, 43, 45–46, 49–50, 51, 56n31, 188n476, 225, 237n640, 253, 313, 354
Ḥijāz
3, 59, 61–63, 94, 174–194
al-Ḥilla
99, 178, 180, 183–184, 284, 290n122, 295n175, 297
Hurmuz
86, 153n354
ḥurūfiyya
303, 345, 365–368
Ḥusayn b. ughurlu Muḥammad b. uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
83n103
Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, Timurid ruler
84, 142n299
qāḍī Ḥusayn Maybudī, Aqquyunlu courtier and scholar
70n72, 123n228, 144–152, 154, 198n506, 307n252
Ibn Ajā, Mamlūk envoy and courtier
141–142, 155, 196–201, 263–265, 363–364
Ibrāhīm Gulshanī, Aqquyunlu courtier
91, 137n277, 142, 154, 165n401, 193, 199, 258, 288n117, 308–309, 313n268, 314n269, 316–317, 328, 358n395
Manāqib-i Ibrāhīm-i Gulshanī
73n76, 83n103, 99n155, 108n180, 115n208, 127, 165n398, 188n476, 198n506, 276n67, 310, 313n268, 333n327, 345n349, 347n359, 358, 362n413,
al-Ījī see ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī
Indian Muslim rulers
50n23, 81, 85, 172–173, 248–249, 253n681
Indian Ocean
64, 80, 85n106, 99, 170
Iraq, encompassing both the ʿirāq al-ʿajam and the ʿirāq al-ʿarab
62n45, 86, 169, 175, 177, 179, 182, 184–189, 248n673, 253, 295n175, 312, 319–321, 333n327, 374
qāḍī ʿĪsā Sāwajī, mentor and minister of sulṭān Yaʿqūb Aqquyunlu
50, 66n62, 83n103, 91, 131, 149, 194–196, 258n6, 276, 299n228, 312–313, 333n327
Iṣfahān
3, 39, 83n102, 111–113, 120n221, 121n226, 122n227, 123–124, 149n338, 150–151, 161, 211–247, 256, 293–294, 297, 308n253, 322, 353n379, 353n381, 358n392
Iskandar b. qara Yūsuf Qaraquyunlu
76, 98, 139, 166, 267n36, 283n102, 292n142, 348
Ismāʿīl Ṣafawī
58–59n37, 82, 120–121, 123–124, 135n271, 276, 368, 386, 389–391
Istanbul
3, 43, 45, 50, 51, 81, 113n203, 222n585
Jahāngīr Aqquyunlu
83n103, 168n408, 284, 286
Jahānshāh b. qara Yūsuf Qaraquyunlu
career of courtiers
167n408, 214, 218, 236–237, 286, 344, 351
chancellery composed at the court of
171n414, 171n418, 174–184, 314n269
coins of
41n1, 95, 283n102, 290–291, 293
courtly representation in the qishlāq
86, 119n217, 123n229, 127, 135n272, 136n274, 137–158, 168n408, 221–224, 227–229, 353, 366–368
courtly representation in the yaylāq
65n56, 95, 106n172, 248n673, 258, 271n45, 307n253
demise of
313n266, 318, 320–322, 324, 328–329, 348
external support for
85n105
false affiliations of
280n84, 280n87, 288n119
legacy of
152–153, 202–203, 354
patronage of trans-regional infrastructure
174–187
preordination of success
320–323
Jalāl al-Dīn Dawwānī, influential scholar and courtier
50n23, 85n108, 86, 153, 306, 307n252, 312–313
account of parade in Fārs composed by
54–55, 57, 67, 70, 76, 94n140, 96n147, 103, 107–110, 147n324, 148n331, 216, 227n598,
Akhlāq-i Jalālī composed by
277n72, 314–316, 319n282, 323–325, 353
Jāmī see ʿAbdalraḥmān Jāmī
Jews in the ‘Turkmen’ realms
331
Joos van Ghistele, Flemish traveller
53n28, 85n106, 113–174, 301n231, 333n328
justice
47, 152, 170, 209, 238, 269, 300–301, 304–316, 331, 335–336, 339, 341–344, 347, 350, 352, 356, 363, 368, 372–374, 378
Kaʿba
43–46, 59, 63, 176, 178–180, 184n453, 188, 190–192, 210
Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Abīwardī see Abīwardī
Kāshān
3, 60n40, 111, 161, 204, 284, 294, 297–298
Kemah
99, 160, 161, 262
Khalīl b. uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
54–55, 57, 67, 83n103, 96n147, 103n166, 107–110, 148, 162–165, 170, 209, 238n644, 270n44, 276, 313n268
khātūn Jān bīgum, wife of Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
136n274, 137–158, 203, 205, 208n545, 344
Khurāsān
3, 43, 49, 81, 84, 95n144, 190–192, 312, 360, 363, 382
Khusraw I Anūshirwān, pre-Islamic Sasanian ruler
72, 269, 275, 307
Khusraw II Parwīz, pre-Islamic Sasanian ruler
57–58, 75, 79
Khūy
118, 162, 164
khwāja Maqṣūd Kāzirūnī see under Maqsūd
khwāja Mīrak, Armenian merchant in Tabrīz
333–343
Kiğı
166–168, 280
Kirmān
161, 284, 295n175, 297
Kurds
205–206, 237n640, 259, 267n36, 271, 280, 344, 374, 376
Maḥmal
59, 61–63, 174–194
Maḥmūd Gāwān, Persian scholar and wazīr in India
50n23, 85n108, 86n113, 280n84
Mamlūk rule over Egypt and Syria
44n8, 45, 62n45, 83–86, 90n125, 93n134, 125n234, 132–133, 136, 141, 159, 162, 170, 184–185, 188–189, 193–194, 196–197, 200–201, 204n523, 253n682, 263, 266, 277n71, 286, 299, 306n250, 324n298, 328n310, 328n313, 345, 348
Maqṣūd bīk b. uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
360, 363
khwāja Maqsūd Kāzirūnī
313
Marāgha
161, 279n82
Marand
334
Mardin
112, 113n200, 120n220, 150n340, 159nn380–381, 161, 167–168n408, 204, 206, 233n622, 280–282, 284–286, 294, 297
Masjid-i Maydān-i Sang in Kāshān, displaying inscriptions 868 and 869 Kāshān
204n523
Mausoleum of akhī Saʿd al-Dīn in Tabrīz
119, 139
Maybudī see qāḍī Ḥusayn Maybudī under Ḥusayn
Māzandarān
81, 87, 161, 190–191, 294
Mecca
3, 43–44, 61, 62n45, 63, 144, 175–176, 178–179, 182, 186–189, 191, 194, 202, 210, 246, 371
Medina
3, 43, 44n8, 80, 102n163, 179, 185, 188, 194, 332, 388
Mount Sahand
45, 52–53, 55–60, 63, 69, 93, 98, 100–102, 171, 184, 382
Muḥammad II fātiḥ, Ottoman ruler
84n105, 130, 142n299, 278, 374
shāh Muḥammad b. qara Yūsuf Qaraquyunlu
185, 345–346, 348
Muḥammad b. Jalāl al-Dīn ʿArabshāh, patron of the rebuilding of the Buqʿa-yi Abū Masʿūd in Iṣfahān
236–240
ughurlu Muḥammad b. uzun Ḥasan see under ughurlu
Muḥammadī mīrzā b. Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
123n229, 152, 185–186, 212–213, 218–230, 322–323, 338
Mujaddid, Islamic renewer
321, 352
Muş
280
Mushaʿshaʿ
81, 86, 166, 169, 186n465
Muẓaffariyya complex in Tabrīz
86nn111–112, 130n250, 135n272, 136, 137–158, 196, 202–203, 208n545, 221, 237n642, 283n102, 386n8
Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Uskūʾī, courtier of Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
351, 366–368
Naqsh-i Jahān esplanade in Iṣfahān
113n201, 214
Naṣriyya complex in Tabrīz
68n69, 115, 119n217, 125n233, 127–131, 208–211, 242n659, 334, 337–338, 386n8
Niʿmatallāh b. Muḥammad al-Bawwāb, Qaraquyunlu calligrapher
144, 148
Niʿmatallāh II, influential mystic
187, 362
Niẓām al-Dīn ʿĀshūr, courtier of Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
175–181
Nūrʿalī Aqquyunlu
284, 291, 298, 300
Ottoman rulers and Ottoman sources
44n8, 45–46, 59n37, 83–85, 93n134, 96n147, 113n201, 117, 122, 125n234, 127, 130, 136, 153–154, 163, 170, 194, 205, 209n546, 242n659, 252, 254, 258n6, 261, 263–264, 273–274, 277n71, 278, 281n90, 282, 286–287, 302–303, 305, 308n253, 309n256, 313n265, 317n276, 326, 328, 358, 364, 374–375
Pasin
99
Persians
157, 275, 315, 320n287
pīr Būdāq b. Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
106n172, 175, 181n447, 183, 186, 187n467, 248n673, 258–259, 271n45, 308n253, 321–323
qara ʿUthmān Aqquyunlu see under ʿUthmān
qara Yūsuf Qaraquyunlu see under Yūsuf
darwīsh Qāsim, courtier of uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
68, 115, 199, 208–210, 334–337, 339–340, 343–344
Qāsim parwānchī, Qaraquyunlu courtier
181
Qaṣr al-Dasht
353n380
Qazwīn
3, 63, 86n112, 120n221, 121n226, 122n227, 161, 208, 231
qibla
130, 176, 190–191, 209–213, 230–232, 242, 245–246, 338
qishlāq or entangled urban sphere as the site of courtly performances
97, 110–254, 265–266, 322, 333, 336–337, 341, 351n366, 365, 367
Qumm
3, 111, 161, 181n447, 187–188, 284, 297, 310n257
Qurʾān
39n94, 44–45, 47n15, 48, 55, 57, 59–61, 89, 91, 109, 143–144, 146, 171, 176–183, 190, 192–193, 233–234, 238–240, 266, 268, 283–284, 296, 298–301, 304–305, 307, 319, 322–327, 339, 349, 351–353, 356, 361, 368–371
al-Raqqa
3, 99n158, 266
sulṭān Rustam Aqquyunlu
76, 94n142, 154, 193, 213, 217, 226, 243–244, 284, 290–291, 292n139, 294, 298, 300, 353
Ṣafarshāh, the lālā (mentor) of Muḥammadī mīrzā b. Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
212–214, 218–230
Ṣafawids
82, 111n194, 112n199, 113n201, 123, 152n347, 154, 163, 195, 211, 214, 217, 218n567, 221, 231, 243, 264, 275–276, 287, 288n117, 292, 303, 306, 309, 318n280, 330, 337, 358, 365, 367–368, 370, 371, 374
Ṣāḥibābād gardens and palatial grounds in Tabrīz
117–127, 153, 203, 248, 254, 339
Ṣāḥib-qirān, lord of the auspicious conjunction
188, 262, 286n114, 318–321, 346
Saʿīdābād
59–64, 189
Ṣāliḥa bt. Jahānshāh Qaraquyunlu
145, 147–148, 152
Salīm I, Ottoman ruler
59n37
Saljūqshāh bīgum, wife of uzun Ḥasan
153, 189n484, 232, 267–268, 276
Shāfiʿī School of Law
72, 76, 140–141, 213, 307n253, 314, 355, 360, 363–365, 370
shāh Muḥammad see under Muḥammad
Shāhrukh, Timurid ruler
85n105, 159–161, 184, 270n44
shaykh Ḥaydar see unter Ḥaydar
Shīʿa and shīʿī Muslims
139, 141, 157, 213, 217, 236, 241–244, 290–296, 303, 305, 313n268, 314, 349, 351n367, 355, 357–363
Shīrāz
3, 91, 96n147, 104, 108n180, 161, 181n447, 248n673, 258, 261, 271n45, 284, 297, 313n268, 322–323, 351n367
Shirwān
80, 85n106, 90, 275, 361, 363, 369
Shirwānshāh
90, 275, 369
Siirt
115, 161, 284
Sulaymān bīk b. Bīzhan, Aqquyunlu general
87–88, 261, 386–390
sulṭān Yaʿqūb see under Yaʿqūb
Sulṭāniyya
63, 70n73, 75n81, 103–107, 158, 161, 170, 208, 231, 298
Sunna and sunnī Muslims
76, 140–141, 213, 236, 242–243, 292, 296, 357, 363
Sürmeli
99
Syria
80, 84, 117, 184–185, 200, 206
Syriac Christians (Church of the East and Syriac Orthodox)
85n108, 206–207, 277n71, 315, 331
Tabrīz
3, 43, 45–46, 50, 51, 52, 57–60, 62, 64, 73n76, 83n103, 85n106, 86, 100, 105, 111n194, 112n195, 113–174, 189–190, 194–204, 206–208, 232, 237n642, 242n659, 248–254, 263n22, 283n102, 284, 288n117, 290n127, 294, 296–298, 303, 313n265, 313n268, 314, 332–344, 356, 358n394, 364–367, 370, 382, 384n10, 386
Takht-i Jamshīd
14, 45, 54–55, 57–58, 67, 76, 92n132, 94, 96n147, 103n166, 107–110, 147n324, 148, 216, 225–227, 270n44, 308n253
tanistry
272–273
Taṣawwuf, Islamic Mysticism
44–45, 129, 153–154, 186n463, 188n475, 190, 198, 209, 228n605, 264, 292, 299, 303, 309–310, 313n266, 314, 322, 328–330, 333–334, 337, 355–356, 359, 361, 367, 371, 378
Ṭihrānī see Abū Bakr Ṭihrānī
Timurids
45–46, 49–51, 67n66, 84–86, 93n134, 94n141, 123, 142n299, 160, 175, 184, 193, 195, 211, 225–227, 229, 230n609, 253, 261, 262n16, 270n44, 277n71, 286, 287n114, 290, 292, 293n143, 298n214, 299, 305, 307, 313, 318, 320–321, 349, 354
Trapezunt
134, 170, 273–274
ṭūr ʿAlī see under ʿAlī
Turkic, courtly significance of the linguistic matrix of
60–61, 64, 70, 80, 82, 200–201, 258–259, 261–265, 277–280, 284, 286, 322, 338, 341, 356
ughurlu Muḥammad b. uzun Ḥasan Aqquyunlu
84n105, 104–105, 108, 113n201, 123–124, 136n276, 232, 326
Ūjān
56–94, 96, 108, 120n220, 147, 196n500, 254, 266–267, 335n332
dede ʿUmar Rawshanī, Aqquyunlu courtier and master of Ibrāhīm Gulshanī
91, 153–154, 276n67, 356, 358n394
Urfa
9, 83n103, 118, 159n381, 194, 281, 285, 319
Ushturjān / Īmānshahr
212–213, 215, 233–235, 245–246, 353n380
qara ʿUthmān Aqquyunlu
83n103, 272–274, 276, 278, 284, 288n118, 296n176
Uzbeks
123n231, 137n277, 384
uzun Ḥasan see under Ḥasan
Van
207n540
Venice
53n28, 85, 106, 117, 126, 164, 232, 248, 251–253, 266, 278, 329, 333, 335, 337, 341, 344, 356
Yashbak min Mahdī, Mamlūk general and courtier
171, 196–198, 201, 263, 328n310, 387
sulṭān Yaʿqūb Aqquyunlu
administration of realms
169–171, 308–310, 312–314, 352n371
career of courtiers
123n228, 146, 151, 154, 198n506, 202n520, 205–207, 276, 307n252, 328n310, 350n364, 362n413, 368, 384n10
chancellery composed at the court of
382n5
coins of
159–162, 284, 290, 292n139, 294, 296–301
courtly representation in the qishlāq
119, 127–129, 131, 133–134, 137, 139, 162–165, 194–196, 209–211, 213, 235–240, 254, 266, 333–344, 364, 371
courtly representation in the yaylāq
64–94, 96, 98–103, 108, 327, 332, 372
depiction of wife and children
39–40
patronage of trans-regional infrastructure
189–192, 194
preordination of success
316–319
verses and discourses composed for
49–50, 145, 147, 256, 330, 353n375, 364, 385–392
yaylāq
51–110, 142, 147, 171, 184, 189, 196–198, 208, 254, 265–267, 331n321, 335n332, 343, 376
Yazd
3, 111, 123n228, 130n250, 147n323, 149n338, 151–152, 161, 174n425, 181n447, 187, 198n506, 204, 232n619, 238–239, 242, 250, 284, 294–295, 297, 307n252,307n253, 353n379
qara Yūsuf Qaraquyunlu
65n54, 83n103, 185, 272, 276, 354
Zakʿaria III, Armenian catholicos
204–205, 207n540, 344
zāwiya-yi Darb-i Kushk see under Darb-i Kushk
Zeno, Caterino, Venetian envoy
136n275, 263, 264nn25–26
Zibād khātūn bt. amīr ʿUmar Mawṣillū
173n424