The Timurid Century

Charles Melville is Professor Emeritus of Persian History at the University of Cambridge, UK, President of the British Institute of Persian Studies and Director of the Shahnama Project, at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the history of Iran, including Every Inch a King, The Mongols’ Middle East and Persian Historiography (I.B.Tauris).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction
Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK

Arbiters of Iran: Chroniclers and Patrons in an Age of Literary Bounty
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University, USA

The Local and Universal in Turko-Iranian Ideology
Beatrice Forbes Manz, Tufts University, USA

An Idea of Iran on Mongol Foundations: Territory, Dynasties and Tabriz as Royal City (Seventeenth/thirteenth to Ninth/fifteenth Century
Daniel Zakrzewski, Philips University Marburg, Germany

Two Later Ninth/fifteenth-Century Iranian Travellers
John E. Woods, University of Chicago, USA

Imitational Poetry as Pious Hermeneutics? Jami and Fani’s Rewriting of Hafez’s Opening Ghazal
Marc Toutant, Centre National de la Research Scientifique, France

A Man of Letters: Hoseyn Va‘ez Kashefi and his Persian Project
Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto, Canada

The Timurid Book: golshan-e naqsh-o tazhib – A Garden of Painting and Illumination
Eleanor Sims

From Maragha to Samarqand and Beyond: Revisiting a Quartet of Scientific Traditions in Greater Persia (ca. 1300s–1500s)
Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard, USA


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