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    Genealogical History in the Persianate World by Gross, Jo-Ann; Beben, Daniel;

    Series: British Institute of Persian Studies;

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    • Publisher I.B. Tauris
    • Date of Publication 24 July 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9780755649792
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 236x156x24 mm
    • Weight 620 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 25 bw illus
    • 700

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    Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as sources for historical research.

    Genealogical writings are one form of such documentation that has demonstrated significant potential for addressing a wide range of research concerns, particularly for topics that receive little attention in historical chronicles and other state-centered narrative sources. However, while genealogical documentation has received some attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in scholarship on Persianate societies. The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based primarily on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials. The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene as well as readers in other fields interested in comparative research demonstrating the use of genealogical documentation as historical sources.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures and Maps
    List of Contributors
    Acknowledgments
    Note on Transcription and Style
    List of Abbreviations
    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
    Chapter One: Beyond Sayyid-hood: Genealogy and Narrative in the Nasab-nama of Malik Jahanshah and the Isma?ili Tradition of Badakhshan (Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University)
    Chapter Two: Solomon's Shadow: The Politics and Poetics of Baloch Genealogical Traditions (Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi, Princeton University)
    Chapter Three: The Nasab-namas of Zibak: Connectivity between Sacred Lineage and Conversion from Zibak to Hunza (Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey)
    Part II: Genealogy as Discourse and Praxis
    Chapter Four: The Samanid File: Embedding Genealogy in 16th-Century Bukhara (Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
    Chapter Five: Crossing the Arab/Persian Divide in the Gulf: Persianized Arabs, Arabized Persians, and the Politics of Persianness (James Onley, Qatar National Library)
    Part III: Sufism and Genealogy
    Chapter Six: An A?rari Genealogical Compilation Spanning the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (Devin DeWeese, Indiana University)
    Chapter Seven: Where Genealogies of Texts Meet Genealogies of Saints: Concretizing Imami Sunni Sufism and Female Leadership in the Afghan Mujaddidi Lineage (Waleed Ziad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    Chapter Eight: Sacred Genealogies of Khwajas in the Ferghana Valley of the 19th Century (Yayoi Kawahara, University of Tokyo)
    Index

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