Verfasst von:	Brack, Jonathan Z. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	An afterlife for the Khan
Titelzusatz:	Muslims, Buddhists, and sacred kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia
Verf.angabe:	Jonathan Z. Brack
Verlagsort:	Oakland, California
Verlag:	University of California Press
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
Umfang:	xv, 196 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen, Karten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-0-520-39290-8
Abstract:	In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators, Buddhist monks, and Christian clergy all attempted to sway their imperial overlords, arguing fiercely over the proper role of the king and his government, with momentous and far-reaching consequences. Focusing on the famous but understudied figure of the grand vizier Rashid al-Din, a Persian Jew who converted to Islam, Jonathan Z. Brack explores the myriad ways Rashid al-Din and his fellow courtiers investigated, reformulated, and transformed long-standing ideas of authority and power. Out of this intellectual ferment of accommodation, resistance, and experimentation, they developed a completely new understanding of sacred kingship. This new ideal, and the political theology it subtends, would go on to become a central justification in imperial projects across Eurasia in the centuries that followed. An Afterlife for the Khan offers a powerful cultural and intellectual history of this pivotal moment for Islam and empire in the Middle East and Asia
URL:	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303532303339323930387C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2
Schlagwörter:	(s)Interreligiöser Dialog    / (s)Politische Theologie    / (s)Religionspolitik    / (s)Hof    / (g)Iran    / (g)Eurasien
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Brack, Jonathan, 1981-: Afterlife for the khan. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Brack, Jonathan Z.: An afterlife for the Khan. - Oakland : University of California Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages)
Sach-SW:	Asiatische Geschichte
	Buddhismus
	Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
	Geschichte der Religion
	Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
	HIS026020
	HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
	HISTORY / World
	History
	Islam
	Islamische Gruppen: Sufis
	RELIGION / Buddhism / History
	RELIGION / Islam / History
	RELIGION / Islam / Sufi
	RELIGION / Islam / Theology
	Theologie
Geograph. SW:	Iran
	Zentralasien
K10plus-PPN:	1819957489