Nadir Shah's Peculiar Central Asian Legacy
Empire, Conversion Narratives, and the Rise of New Scholarly Dynasties
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8969271 |
|---|---|
| Autores | James Pickett (0000-0002-2657-0795, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 491-510 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-07-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743816000453 |
| OpenAlex | W2472720700 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 25 |
Over the course of the 18th–early 20th centuries, a curious narrative emerged in Central Asia wherein the Turko-Persian monarch Nadir Shah Afshar was converted from Shiʿism to Sunnism by a group of Islamic scholars outside of Bukhara. While this legend was rooted in Nadir Shah's theological ambitions to bring Shiʿism back into the Sunni fold as a fifth school of canonical law, the memory of that event in the subsequent two centuries was intimately tied to the establishment of several scholarly dynasties, which managed to perpetuate themselves all the way to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. This article engages the memory of this mythological conversion to explore sharpening conceptions of sectarian divisions and the role of genealogy in projecting spiritual authority. Most broadly, it argues that—far from a passing depredation—the Afsharid Empire profoundly shaped the geopolitical and social landscape of Persianate Asia
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Central asia · Empire · Geopolitics · Islam · Legend · Literature · Mythology · Nadir · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
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| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |