Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth Volume II The Sultan's Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture

Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA is a Middle East historian of world stature. In this volume his friends and colleagues come together to honour his 70th birthday. This book ranges widely over time and space but its core is the Islamic culture of Iran and Turkey. The contributors cover topics from the Arab conquest in the seventh century to Turkish and Iranian nationalism in the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to medieval Turco-Persian history, an area which lies at the heart of Professor Bosworth's oeuvre: more than half of the articles fall into this category. Moreover, five of them focus on that early medieval eastern Iranian world on which he has written so widely. While the emphasis lies squarely on history, other fields such as religion, literature, music, art and numismatics are also represented. Thus the volume offers a conspectus of the cultural contribution of Iran and Turkey to Islamic civilisation.

Contains article: MacEoin, D. (2000). The trial of the Bab: Shi'ite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image. Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth Vol II. The Sultan's Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture. C. Hillenbrand. Leiden Boston Koln: 272-317.

Front Matter
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Preliminary Material
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: i–viii
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Editor’s Preface
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: ix
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Editor’s Tribute to Edmund Bosworth
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: xi
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Homage to Edmund Bosworth
Author: G.M. Wickens
Pages: xiii–xviii
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Bibliography of the Works of C.E. Bosworth
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: xix–xli
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List of Contributors
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: xlii
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The Last of the Anatolian Nationalists: Nurettin Topçu
Author: Çiğdem Balim-Harding
Pages: 1–18
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A Young Man Abroad Sir Thomas Herbert’s Travels to Persia in 1626 A.D.
Author: John Carswell
Pages: 19–42
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The Medieval Ismā’Īlīs of the Iranian Lands
Author: Farhad Daftary
Pages: 43–81
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A Persian Poem Lamenting the Arab Conquest
Author: François de Blois
Pages: 82–95
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Die Mausoleengruppe in Adheri, NW-Pakistan
Author: Heinz Gaube
Pages: 96–108m
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A Mid-Fifteenth Century Byzantine and Ottoman Coin Hoard from Rumeli: The Ottoman Component (A Preliminary Report)
Author: Colin Heywood
Pages: 109–123
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The Architecture of the Ghaznavids and the Ghurids
Author: Robert Hillenbrand
Pages: 124–206g
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The Fall of the Ghurid Dynasty
Author: Peter Jackson
Pages: 207–237
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Poems from the Turkish
Author: Bernard Lewis
Pages: 238–245
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The Iranian Nationalists in Istanbul During World War I
Author: J.P. Luft
Pages: 246–271
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The Trial of the Bāb: Shi‘ite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image
Author: Denis MacEoin
Pages: 272–317
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Abu L-Mu‘īn al-Nasafī and Ash‘arī Theology
Author: Wilferd Madelung
Pages: 318–330
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Bahram Gür’s Spectacular Marksmanship and the Art of Illustration in Qājār Lithographed Books
Author: Ulrich Marzolph
Pages: 331–347
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Why Write History in Persian? Historical Writing in the Samanid Period
Author: Julie Scott Meisami
Pages: 348–374
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Reflections on Mongol Communications in the Ilkhanate
Author: David Morgan
Pages: 375–385
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The Ottoman Merchant Marine
Author: S. Soucek
Pages: 386–396
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Ibn Ẓāfir Al-Azdī’s Account of the Murder of Aḥmad B. Ismā’īl Al-Sāmānī and the Succession of His Son Naṣr
Author: Luke Treadwell
Pages: 397–419
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Love-Related Conventions in Sa‘di’s Ghazals
Author: Ehsan Yarshater
Pages: 420–438
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The Musical Setting of the Mawlawī Liturgy
Authors: Yaqub Zaki and James Dickie
Pages: 439–449
Back Matter
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Index of Names
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: 451–462
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Index of Places
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Pages: 463–468