Mediating Sacred Kingship: Conversion and Sovereignty in Mongol Iran

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" Mediating Sacred Kingship: Conversion and Sovereignty in Mongol Iran "
Jonathan Z. Brack Babayan, Kathryn

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	804407
Doc. No	:	TL49237
Call number	:	‭1873854062;‮ ‬10391519‬
Main Entry	:	Hweio, Haala
Title & Author	:	Mediating Sacred Kingship: Conversion and Sovereignty in Mongol Iran\ Jonathan Z. BrackBabayan, Kathryn
College	:	University of Michigan
Date	:	2016
Degree	:	Ph.D.
field of study	:	History
student score	:	2016
Page No	:	390
Note	:	Committee members: Babayan, Kathryn; Cipa, Hakki Erdem; Fancy, Hussein; Hagen, Gottfried J; Pfeiffer, Judith
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-58731-9
Abstract	:	This dissertation focuses on the fashioning of new discourses on authority and sacral kingship in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Mongol-ruled Iran. It examines how Jewish and Muslim (both Shi'i and Sunni) bureaucrats, court historians, scholars, and courtiers experimented at the Mongol court with Persian and Islamic theological and political paradigms to express, reaffirm, and redefine a Mongol political theology of divine right that invested Chinggis Khan and his offspring with sacral charisma and the charge of world domination. This study argues that in their attempt to mediate the Mongol understanding of the Chinggisid ruler as a source of law and divine wisdom, intermediaries in late medieval Iran laid the foundations for a new idiom of sacral Muslim kingship.
Subject	:	Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Buddhism;Conversion and Islamization;Cultural brokers;Iran;Islam;Islamic history;Judaism;Mongol empire;Sacred kingship;Shiism
Added Entry	:	Babayan, Kathryn
Added Entry	:	HistoryUniversity of Michigan