A Azfar Moin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 378258 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Azfar Moin |
| NOMBRES | A Azfar |
| APELLIDO | Moin |
| FIRMA | MOIN A A |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9948-1005 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A heresy inquisition in the National Assembly and the Islamisation of Pakistan
The goal of the second constitutional amendment passed in 1974 was to excommunicate the Ahmadis and establish Pakistan as a bona fide Islamic state. The Pakistani state accomplished this goal through an extraordinary process in which the National Assembly conducted a month-long examination of Ahmadi beliefs. Conducted by the attorney general of Pakistan, who was aided by the ulema members of parliament, these proceedings were a type of heresy inq…
Sacred Kingship
Sacred Kingship in World History
Sacred Kingship in World History
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace
Sulh-i kull or 'Total Peace' with all religions was a policy introduced by the Mughal empire in South Asia in the late sixteenth century. It was a radically accommodative stance for its day, especially when compared to the intolerant manner in which other Muslim and Christian polities of the early modern world dealt with religious difference. This article introduces a new perspective on Mughal Total Peace by arguing that it was meant to solve a l…
Muslim Kingship and the Problem of Un-Conversion
The transcendence of divinity in Islam along with submission to God as the ultimate sovereign created a host of challenges for Muslim kings in their formal, legalistic interactions with non-monotheists, especially those communities who perceived the divine as immanent in nature and did not make a distinction between the veneration of kings and the worship of gods. While the preferred biblical mode for smoothing such engagements between the believ…
Islam as Enigma
Why did Shahab Ahmed treat Islam as a puzzle to solve in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic? Moin examines this question in light of the historical changes that gave shape to the milieu that Ahmed refers to as the Bengal-to-Balkans complex
Intellectual Networks in Tīmūrid Iran
Intellectual Networks in Tīmūrid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters By İlker Evrim Binbaş Intellectual Networks in Tīmūrid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters By İlker Evrim Binbaş (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [ 2016] 2018. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), xviii + 340 pp. Price PB £29.99. EAN 978–1107689336. A Azfar Moin A Azfar Moin University of Texas E-m…
Millennial Sovereignty, Total Religion, and Total Politics
Discussions of kingship and sovereignty in early modern India have struggled to fully comprehend and assess the work and life of Akbar (r. 1556-1605), the celebrated and most famous ruler of the Mughal Empire. The Mughal emperor's incomparable energy and imagination had lit up, like never before in the history of Islam, the vast networks and institutions of knowledge and practice that could be deployed in the service of sacred kingship. Rather th…
Cosmos and Power
Afterword
Sovereign Violence
Was the destruction of Sufi and 'Alid saint shrines as a rite of conquest in Iran and Central Asia a phenomenon comparable to the desecration of temples in war in India? With this question in mind, this essay examines the changing nature of Islamic kingship in premodern Iran and Central Asia and compares it to developments in Indic kingship. It begins with the thesis that the decline of the caliphate and the rise of Muslim saints and shrines in t…
The Millennial Sovereign
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was not alone in doing so. This book explores why Muslim sovereigns in this period began to imitate the exalted nature of Sufi saints. Uncovering a startli…
Margins of anxiety and centres of confidence
Those who work on Islam in South Asia often come to face the realization that while Islam can be studied and taught without India, India cannot be studied and taught without Islam. This contradicti
Sultans of the South
In today’s Japan, during the Kyoto Gion Festival, which celebrates the Yasaka Shrine of the god Gion Tenjin, the float of the Taishi-yama ward is decorated with a hanging of silk embroidery from eighteenth-century Deccan. It was probably Dutch traders who brought this beautiful cloth from India to Japan. Objects like this embroidery, a focus of Yumiko Kamada’s essay in the book under review, place South India within an early modern world connecte…
The Millennial Sovereign
Introduction: Islam and the Millennium2. The Lord of Conjunction: Sacrality and Sovereignty in the Age of Timur3. The Crown of Dreams: Sufis and Princes in Sixteenth-Century Iran4. The Alchemical Court: The Beginnings of the Mughal Imperial Cult5. The Millennial Sovereign: The Troubled Unveiling of the Savior Monarch6. The Throne of Time: The Painted Miracles of the Saint Emperor7. Conclusion: The Graffiti Under the ThroneNotesBibliographyIndex
Peering through the cracks in the Baburnama
This article examines the intertwined literary and political processes that moulded the texts of Mughal sovereignty and shaped the lives of Mughal sovereigns. In historical terms it considers the lives of Babur (d. 1530) and his grandson Akbar (d. 1605) and the ‘books’ associated with them, the Baburnama and Akbarnama. However, in order to connect the two pairs, this article follows an unconventional and less trodden path through Safavid politica…
Sovereign Violence
Was the destruction of Sufi and 'Alid saint shrines as a rite of conquest in Iran and Central Asia a phenomenon comparable to the desecration of temples in war in India? With this question in mind, this essay examines the changing nature of Islamic kingship in premodern Iran and Central Asia and compares it to developments in Indic kingship. It begins with the thesis that the decline of the caliphate and the rise of Muslim saints and shrines in t…
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace
Sulh-i kull or 'Total Peace' with all religions was a policy introduced by the Mughal empire in South Asia in the late sixteenth century. It was a radically accommodative stance for its day, especially when compared to the intolerant manner in which other Muslim and Christian polities of the early modern world dealt with religious difference. This article introduces a new perspective on Mughal Total Peace by arguing that it was meant to solve a l…
Millennial Sovereignty, Total Religion, and Total Politics
Discussions of kingship and sovereignty in early modern India have struggled to fully comprehend and assess the work and life of Akbar (r. 1556-1605), the celebrated and most famous ruler of the Mughal Empire. The Mughal emperor's incomparable energy and imagination had lit up, like never before in the history of Islam, the vast networks and institutions of knowledge and practice that could be deployed in the service of sacred kingship. Rather th…
Islam as Enigma
Why did Shahab Ahmed treat Islam as a puzzle to solve in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic? Moin examines this question in light of the historical changes that gave shape to the milieu that Ahmed refers to as the Bengal-to-Balkans complex
Cosmos and Power
Margins of anxiety and centres of confidence
Those who work on Islam in South Asia often come to face the realization that while Islam can be studied and taught without India, India cannot be studied and taught without Islam. This contradicti
Peering through the cracks in the Baburnama
This article examines the intertwined literary and political processes that moulded the texts of Mughal sovereignty and shaped the lives of Mughal sovereigns. In historical terms it considers the lives of Babur (d. 1530) and his grandson Akbar (d. 1605) and the ‘books’ associated with them, the Baburnama and Akbarnama. However, in order to connect the two pairs, this article follows an unconventional and less trodden path through Safavid politica…
The Millennial Sovereign
Introduction: Islam and the Millennium2. The Lord of Conjunction: Sacrality and Sovereignty in the Age of Timur3. The Crown of Dreams: Sufis and Princes in Sixteenth-Century Iran4. The Alchemical Court: The Beginnings of the Mughal Imperial Cult5. The Millennial Sovereign: The Troubled Unveiling of the Savior Monarch6. The Throne of Time: The Painted Miracles of the Saint Emperor7. Conclusion: The Graffiti Under the ThroneNotesBibliographyIndex
Peering through the cracks in the Baburnama
This article examines the intertwined literary and political processes that moulded the texts of Mughal sovereignty and shaped the lives of Mughal sovereigns. In historical terms it considers the lives of Babur (d. 1530) and his grandson Akbar (d. 1605) and the ‘books’ associated with them, the Baburnama and Akbarnama. However, in order to connect the two pairs, this article follows an unconventional and less trodden path through Safavid politica…
The Millennial Sovereign
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was not alone in doing so. This book explores why Muslim sovereigns in this period began to imitate the exalted nature of Sufi saints. Uncovering a startli…
Margins of anxiety and centres of confidence
Those who work on Islam in South Asia often come to face the realization that while Islam can be studied and taught without India, India cannot be studied and taught without Islam. This contradicti
Sultans of the South
In today’s Japan, during the Kyoto Gion Festival, which celebrates the Yasaka Shrine of the god Gion Tenjin, the float of the Taishi-yama ward is decorated with a hanging of silk embroidery from eighteenth-century Deccan. It was probably Dutch traders who brought this beautiful cloth from India to Japan. Objects like this embroidery, a focus of Yumiko Kamada’s essay in the book under review, place South India within an early modern world connecte…
Afterword
Sovereign Violence
Was the destruction of Sufi and 'Alid saint shrines as a rite of conquest in Iran and Central Asia a phenomenon comparable to the desecration of temples in war in India? With this question in mind, this essay examines the changing nature of Islamic kingship in premodern Iran and Central Asia and compares it to developments in Indic kingship. It begins with the thesis that the decline of the caliphate and the rise of Muslim saints and shrines in t…
Cosmos and Power
Millennial Sovereignty, Total Religion, and Total Politics
Discussions of kingship and sovereignty in early modern India have struggled to fully comprehend and assess the work and life of Akbar (r. 1556-1605), the celebrated and most famous ruler of the Mughal Empire. The Mughal emperor's incomparable energy and imagination had lit up, like never before in the history of Islam, the vast networks and institutions of knowledge and practice that could be deployed in the service of sacred kingship. Rather th…
Islam as Enigma
Why did Shahab Ahmed treat Islam as a puzzle to solve in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic? Moin examines this question in light of the historical changes that gave shape to the milieu that Ahmed refers to as the Bengal-to-Balkans complex
Intellectual Networks in Tīmūrid Iran
Intellectual Networks in Tīmūrid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters By İlker Evrim Binbaş Intellectual Networks in Tīmūrid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters By İlker Evrim Binbaş (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [ 2016] 2018. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), xviii + 340 pp. Price PB £29.99. EAN 978–1107689336. A Azfar Moin A Azfar Moin University of Texas E-m…
Muslim Kingship and the Problem of Un-Conversion
The transcendence of divinity in Islam along with submission to God as the ultimate sovereign created a host of challenges for Muslim kings in their formal, legalistic interactions with non-monotheists, especially those communities who perceived the divine as immanent in nature and did not make a distinction between the veneration of kings and the worship of gods. While the preferred biblical mode for smoothing such engagements between the believ…
Sacred Kingship
Sacred Kingship in World History
Sacred Kingship in World History
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace
Sulh-i kull or 'Total Peace' with all religions was a policy introduced by the Mughal empire in South Asia in the late sixteenth century. It was a radically accommodative stance for its day, especially when compared to the intolerant manner in which other Muslim and Christian polities of the early modern world dealt with religious difference. This article introduces a new perspective on Mughal Total Peace by arguing that it was meant to solve a l…
A heresy inquisition in the National Assembly and the Islamisation of Pakistan
The goal of the second constitutional amendment passed in 1974 was to excommunicate the Ahmadis and establish Pakistan as a bona fide Islamic state. The Pakistani state accomplished this goal through an extraordinary process in which the National Assembly conducted a month-long examination of Ahmadi beliefs. Conducted by the attorney general of Pakistan, who was aided by the ulema members of parliament, these proceedings were a type of heresy inq…
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