The millennial sovereign: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam
A. Azfar Moin
The millennial sovereign: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam
Author
A. Azfar MoinPublisher
Columbia University PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
The millennial sovereign: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam / A. Azfar MoinPublication Details
نیویورک : Columbia University Press، 2014مPhysical Description
xv, 343 p.: ill.; 23 cm.Subject
Kings and rulers Religious aspects -- IslamSovereignty Religious aspects -- Islam
Muslim saints
series
(South Asia across the disciplines؛ )Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Islam and the millennium -- The lord of conjunction: sacrality and sovereignty in the age of Timur -- The crown of dreams: Sufis and princes in sixteenth-century Iran -- The alchemical court: the beginnings of the Mughal imperial cult -- The millennial sovereign: the troubled unveiling of the savior monarch -- The throne of time: the painted miracles of the saint emperor -- The graffiti under the throne