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Persianate Historical Sociology
Collected Essays
Author:
Following his first volume of collected essays, Sociology of Shiʿite Islam (Brill: 2016), this second volume by Saïd Amir Arjomand contains a collection of selected papers on the historical sociology of the Persianate world. Its purpose is to introduce, define, and celebrate the rise of interdisciplinary Persianate Studies and to trace the development of this field in the last quarter-century.
Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, founder of the Association for the Study of Persianate Society, and editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies.
Preface
Introduction: A Quarter-Century of Persianate Studies
1 Ardašir, Artaxerxes and Bahman
2 Indiaâs Contribution to Persianate Political Culture
3 The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam
4 Evolution of the Persianate Polity and Its Transmission to Anatolia and India
5 Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government
6 Persianate Islam and Its Regional Spread
7 Memorialization of Kingship on the Peripheries of the Persianate World
8 Developmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization
9 The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century
10 Coffeehouses, Guilds and Oriental Despotism: Government and Civil Society in Late-17thâEarly 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, and as Seen from Paris and London
11 State Formation in Early Modern Muslim Empires: Common Origin and Divergent Paths
12 Macrohistory of the Legal Transformations in Iran from the Reception of Turko-Mongolian Law to the Inception of Legal Modernization
13 Political Ethic and Public Law in the Early Qajar Period
14 Iran and the Imperial and Post-imperial Constellations in Central Asia
15 Iran from the Shahâs Dictatorship to Khomeiniâs demagogic theocracy
Index
Introduction: A Quarter-Century of Persianate Studies
Part 1 Perso-Islamicate Civilizational Analysis
1 Ardašir, Artaxerxes and Bahman
2 Indiaâs Contribution to Persianate Political Culture
3 The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam
4 Evolution of the Persianate Polity and Its Transmission to Anatolia and India
5 Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government
6 Persianate Islam and Its Regional Spread
7 Memorialization of Kingship on the Peripheries of the Persianate World
8 Developmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization
Part 2 The State, Civil Society and the Law in the Persianate World
9 The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century
10 Coffeehouses, Guilds and Oriental Despotism: Government and Civil Society in Late-17thâEarly 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, and as Seen from Paris and London
11 State Formation in Early Modern Muslim Empires: Common Origin and Divergent Paths
12 Macrohistory of the Legal Transformations in Iran from the Reception of Turko-Mongolian Law to the Inception of Legal Modernization
13 Political Ethic and Public Law in the Early Qajar Period
14 Iran and the Imperial and Post-imperial Constellations in Central Asia
15 Iran from the Shahâs Dictatorship to Khomeiniâs demagogic theocracy
Index
All interested in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Iran, sociology and history of religions, Shiʿism. Social scientists interested in religion and politics.