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4 - The Timurid Vocabulary of Sovereignty

from Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2019

Christopher Markiewicz
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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In a broad sense, Bidlisi’s political thought was conditioned by a particular tradition of sovereignty, which had its origins in the career of Timur, was developed through the competing claims of his descendants, and was adapted ultimately to courts throughout the central lands of Islam. In this way, the Timurid expression of sovereignty became a pronounced feature of kingship for all of the major polities of the sixteenth century. Yet the articulation and spread of this conception of sovereignty was not the product of some amorphous and abstract intellectual process. In many instances the adaptation of the Timurid conception of kingship can be traced through the movement of scholars and secretaries from one court to another and the adaptation of a new vocabulary of sovereignty to ever wider political contexts.

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The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam
Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty
, pp. 151 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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