Genealogical History in the Persianate World

Daniel Beben is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is the co-author with Daryoush Mohammad Poor of The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam: A Persian edition and English translation of the ' Ibrat-afza of Muhammad Hasan al-Husayni, also known as Hasan 'Ali Shah (I.B. Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2018). Jo-Ann Gross is Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian History at The College of New Jersey, USA. Her book publications include Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th-21st Centuries, co-edited with Devin DeWeese (2018); The Letters of Khwaja ‘Ubayd Allah Ahrar and his Associates, co-authored with Asom Urunbaev (2002), and the edited volume Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change (1992).

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Introduction: The Culture and Construction of Genealogical Documentation in the Persianate World (Daniel Beben and Jo-Ann Gross)
Part I: Genealogy, Translocality, and Narratives of Origin in Early Modern Persianate Societies
1. Commemorating Origin: Places, Lineages and Collectives across Early Modern Iran and India (Mana Kia, Columbia University, USA)
2. Genealogy as an Artifact of Islamization: Malik Jahanshah and the Pre-history of the Ismaili Da'wa in Badakhshan (Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
3. The Politics and Poetics of Genealogical Traditions: The Divergence of Baloch Genealogical Ideologies between the 16th and 18th-Centuries (Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi, Princeton University, USA)
4. Parsi Genealogy and Negotiated Sovereignty in Mughal Gujarat (Daniel Sheffield, Princeton University, USA)
Part II: Genealogy as Discourse and Praxis
5. Esau, Oghuz Khan, and the Ottoman Mythical Imagination in the Subhatu’l Ahbar (Evrim Binbas, University of Bonn, Germany)
6. Archiving, Digitizing and Historicizing the Ismaili Nasab-namah Tradition of Badakhshan (Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey, USA)
7. The Samanid File: Genealogy, Historiography, and Property in 16th-Century Bukhara (Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
8. Eastern Arabia and the Persianate World: Family Archives and National Narratives (James Onley, Qatar National Library, Qatar)

Part III: Sufism and Genealogy
9. An Ahrari Genealogy from 18th-Century India (Devin DeWeese, Indiana University, USA)
10. Vernacularizing the Cosmopolitan: Crafting Naqshbandi Genealogies in early 19th- Century Afghanistan (Waleed Ziad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
11: Nasab-nama and Tariqa in the 19th-Century Ferghana Valley (Yayoi Kawahara, Chuo University, Japan)

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