Author of one’s fate
Fatalism and agency in Indo-Persian histories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ali Anooshahr (0000-0002-2145-5202, UC Davis Dept. of History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-224 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001946461204900202 |
| OpenAlex | W2008057344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
A shift of worldviews can be observed in the historical writings of three Indo-Persian authors ‘Abd al-Malik ‘Isami, Rizq Allah Mushtaqi and Nizam al-Din Ahmad. Whereas ‘Isami viewed history as the unfolding of events predetermined by divine fate; Nizam al-Din considered human agency to be the main mover of events. Mushtaqi displayed ambivalence between the two. His text can thus be read as the expression of a worldview under disintegration and re-composition in the transition from the Sultanate to the Mughal period. This change of attitude bears similarities to other ‘Early Modern Features’ of the late sixteenth century
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Ambivalence · Ancient history · Art · Epistemology · Fatalism · Literature · Period (music · Persian · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology
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Shirazi scholars and the political culture of the sixteenth-century Indo-Persian world
A political sociology of empire
Indo-Persian historian and Sindho-Persian intermediary
Creative Pasts
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The Use of Sources in Mughal Historiography
The Making of a Munshi
Mughal historians and the memory of the Islamic conquest of India
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The Unending Frontier
Connected Histories
A Pragmatic Response 1
Intertwined Histories
Historians of Medieval India
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |