Rao Mohsin Ali Noor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rao Mohsin Ali Noor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rao Mohsin Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Noor |
| SIGNATURE | NOOR R M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4385-698X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: Fireworks and the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean
What made a sovereign, and a messianic one at that? Such questions were repeatedly posed in the sixteenth century, when vigorous new imperialisms compelled the articulation of grand visions of universal rule across Eurasia. In the Islamic world, now bereft of a living Abbasid caliph to serve as a touchstone of sovereignty and ruled by Turkic dynasties seeking to emulate Mongol and Timurid patterns of sacred kingship, the answers to these question…
The mühr-i nübüvvet in eighteenth-century Ottoman prayer books
Aromas of knowledge, networks of scent: Tracing the olfactory imagination of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler
Standing in as a monumental work of Ottoman first-person prose that is without precedent, the Seyāḥatnāme ("Book of Travels"), at once a travelogue as well as a literary composition, is an ideal source for conducting a sensate history of Ottoman-Islamic society in the 17th century. Using characteristic flair and imagination, its author Evliyā Çelebi relates a number of fantastical anecdotes where scent plays a key narrative purpose, once in the c…
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Aromas of knowledge, networks of scent: Tracing the olfactory imagination of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler
Standing in as a monumental work of Ottoman first-person prose that is without precedent, the Seyāḥatnāme ("Book of Travels"), at once a travelogue as well as a literary composition, is an ideal source for conducting a sensate history of Ottoman-Islamic society in the 17th century. Using characteristic flair and imagination, its author Evliyā Çelebi relates a number of fantastical anecdotes where scent plays a key narrative purpose, once in the c…
The mühr-i nübüvvet in eighteenth-century Ottoman prayer books
The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: Fireworks and the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean
What made a sovereign, and a messianic one at that? Such questions were repeatedly posed in the sixteenth century, when vigorous new imperialisms compelled the articulation of grand visions of universal rule across Eurasia. In the Islamic world, now bereft of a living Abbasid caliph to serve as a touchstone of sovereignty and ruled by Turkic dynasties seeking to emulate Mongol and Timurid patterns of sacred kingship, the answers to these question…
Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Charisma (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Dream (1 works) · Gratitude (1 works) · History (1 works) · History (1 works) · Islam (1 works)