Timur Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4446245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timur Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timur |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9719-9564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
New Perspectives on Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s Encounter with the Qing Empire in the Shāhnāma-yi Aḥmadiyya
Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s dispatch of an embassy to the Qing court at Beijing was an ambitious diplomatic move, but it scarcely left an imprint in the Persian- or Pashto-language sources of the era. An exception is the Shāhnāma-yi Aḥmadiyya (completed after 1773) a panegyric mas̲nawī history of Aḥmad Shāh’s reign composed by Niẓām al-Dīn ‘Ishrat Siyālkōtī. In its pages are two chapters purporting to contain ‘letters’ between Aḥmad Shāh and ‘Ulugh Khān…
Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’
In 1763, Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī sent an embassy to the Qianlong emperor. The envoy caused offence by refusing to prostrate himself. Still, the Qing court fêted his embassy. It seemed the beginning of a promising relationship, but the two empires never had contact again. The Qing court presented the embassy as a tributary mission, but in the pragmatic world of Qing frontier policy, contact with the Durrānīs was deliberately avoided. Why did no relatio…
A ‘Good Qaṣba
Between 1747 and 1834, Durrānī Afghan rulers built webs of alliance to political, economic, and religious elites in Peshawar. The village of Chamkanī serves as a useful case study of these networks. Chamkanī housed an influential Indian merchant family, Afghan landed nobility, and a powerful Sufi lineage. Reflecting the fundamental tension between the Durrānī ideal of universal sovereignty and the reality of diffuse power, these groups both coope…
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A ‘Good Qaṣba
Between 1747 and 1834, Durrānī Afghan rulers built webs of alliance to political, economic, and religious elites in Peshawar. The village of Chamkanī serves as a useful case study of these networks. Chamkanī housed an influential Indian merchant family, Afghan landed nobility, and a powerful Sufi lineage. Reflecting the fundamental tension between the Durrānī ideal of universal sovereignty and the reality of diffuse power, these groups both coope…
Do You Not Bow before Heaven?’
In 1763, Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī sent an embassy to the Qianlong emperor. The envoy caused offence by refusing to prostrate himself. Still, the Qing court fêted his embassy. It seemed the beginning of a promising relationship, but the two empires never had contact again. The Qing court presented the embassy as a tributary mission, but in the pragmatic world of Qing frontier policy, contact with the Durrānīs was deliberately avoided. Why did no relatio…
New Perspectives on Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s Encounter with the Qing Empire in the Shāhnāma-yi Aḥmadiyya
Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s dispatch of an embassy to the Qing court at Beijing was an ambitious diplomatic move, but it scarcely left an imprint in the Persian- or Pashto-language sources of the era. An exception is the Shāhnāma-yi Aḥmadiyya (completed after 1773) a panegyric mas̲nawī history of Aḥmad Shāh’s reign composed by Niẓām al-Dīn ‘Ishrat Siyālkōtī. In its pages are two chapters purporting to contain ‘letters’ between Aḥmad Shāh and ‘Ulugh Khān…
Ancient history (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (2 works) · Power (physics) (2 works) · Afghan (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)