Meia Walravens
Biographic Data
| ID | 711001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meia Walravens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meia |
| FAMILY NAME | Walravens |
| SIGNATURE | WALRAVENS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1569-6349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Siyāsa in the Bahmani Sultanate and the Death of Maḥmūd Gāwān
This article is a contribution to the history of Islamic law in South Asia, more particularly in the Bahmani Sultanate (748–934/1347–1528), an important power in the Deccan. There is at present no body of scholarship on law and justice in the Bahmani Sultanate. This article takes up the study of the sultanate’s legal history through the topic of siyāsa , i.e. the sultanic power to judge over subjects independently and exercise discretion. Based o…
Puzzles and Patronage in the Persian Cosmopolis
This article studies a literary puzzle, a maktub-e movashshah or acrostic letter, that is among the Persian monshaʾāt (stylized literary letters) of the Herat-based historian and secretary Moʿin al-Din Mohammad Zamji Esfezāri (fl . 1468–94/873–99 ) . Created in praise of the Bahmani vizier Mahmud Gāvān (d. 1481/886), Esfezāri’s composition fits within a corpus of letters that testifies to the existence of epistolary contacts between Gāvān and the…
Emma J. Flatt, The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates
Arabic as a Language of the South Asian Chancery
A growing body of literature on trade and cultural exchange between the Indian Ocean regions has already contributed significantly to our understanding of these processes and the role of language and writing within them. Yet, the question remains how Arabic correspondence played a part in communications between South Asian powers and the rulers in the Red Sea region. In order to begin filling this lacuna, this article studies epistolary writings …
Multiple Audiences of a History from Sixteenth-Century Malabar
This article investigates the readership of a major primary source for the early modern history of South Asia, the sixteenth-century Arabic work Tuḥfat al-Mujāhidīn fī baʿḍ Akhbār al-Burtughāliyyīn (Gift of the Strugglers for Jihad in some Accounts of the Portuguese) by Zayn al-Dīn al-Maʿbarī. This work has frequently caught the eye of scholars trying to explain political, social and cultural developments in Malabar, not least because of its jiha…
A Migration Project in Retrospect
In the twentieth century, Emirdağ (Turkey) witnessed extensive emigration and is now home to the ‘zero generation’: a group of elderly people who stayed behind when their children moved abroad. We investigate how these elderly people, with at least one child who left the country, evaluate their situation as they have grown older. Using fieldwork observations and in-depth interviews, we found that this group mainly associated the migration of thei…
Arabic as a Language of the South Asian Chancery
A growing body of literature on trade and cultural exchange between the Indian Ocean regions has already contributed significantly to our understanding of these processes and the role of language and writing within them. Yet, the question remains how Arabic correspondence played a part in communications between South Asian powers and the rulers in the Red Sea region. In order to begin filling this lacuna, this article studies epistolary writings …
A Migration Project in Retrospect
In the twentieth century, Emirdağ (Turkey) witnessed extensive emigration and is now home to the ‘zero generation’: a group of elderly people who stayed behind when their children moved abroad. We investigate how these elderly people, with at least one child who left the country, evaluate their situation as they have grown older. Using fieldwork observations and in-depth interviews, we found that this group mainly associated the migration of thei…
Multiple Audiences of a History from Sixteenth-Century Malabar
This article investigates the readership of a major primary source for the early modern history of South Asia, the sixteenth-century Arabic work Tuḥfat al-Mujāhidīn fī baʿḍ Akhbār al-Burtughāliyyīn (Gift of the Strugglers for Jihad in some Accounts of the Portuguese) by Zayn al-Dīn al-Maʿbarī. This work has frequently caught the eye of scholars trying to explain political, social and cultural developments in Malabar, not least because of its jiha…
Emma J. Flatt, The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates
Arabic as a Language of the South Asian Chancery
A growing body of literature on trade and cultural exchange between the Indian Ocean regions has already contributed significantly to our understanding of these processes and the role of language and writing within them. Yet, the question remains how Arabic correspondence played a part in communications between South Asian powers and the rulers in the Red Sea region. In order to begin filling this lacuna, this article studies epistolary writings …
Puzzles and Patronage in the Persian Cosmopolis
This article studies a literary puzzle, a maktub-e movashshah or acrostic letter, that is among the Persian monshaʾāt (stylized literary letters) of the Herat-based historian and secretary Moʿin al-Din Mohammad Zamji Esfezāri (fl . 1468–94/873–99 ) . Created in praise of the Bahmani vizier Mahmud Gāvān (d. 1481/886), Esfezāri’s composition fits within a corpus of letters that testifies to the existence of epistolary contacts between Gāvān and the…
Siyāsa in the Bahmani Sultanate and the Death of Maḥmūd Gāwān
This article is a contribution to the history of Islamic law in South Asia, more particularly in the Bahmani Sultanate (748–934/1347–1528), an important power in the Deccan. There is at present no body of scholarship on law and justice in the Bahmani Sultanate. This article takes up the study of the sultanate’s legal history through the topic of siyāsa , i.e. the sultanic power to judge over subjects independently and exercise discretion. Based o…
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