Nomadic Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period
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The papers in this anthology shed light on the political and military role and importance of nomadic groups in Iran and adjacent areas, using historical case studies that cover the tenth to nineteenth centuries. Some offer detailed historical snapshots,...
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The papers in this anthology shed light on the political and military role and importance of nomadic groups in Iran and adjacent areas, using historical case studies that cover the tenth to nineteenth centuries. Some offer detailed historical snapshots, while others span several centuries. They have in common a concern to explore the relationships and balance of power between settled people and nomadic groups in changing circumstances.
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In Central Asia, the Iranian highlands and the Near East, the impact of nomadic groups on the course of history was more felt than in other parts of the world. The Mongol Empire, which extended from Baghdad to the China Sea, is but one example of the successful military and political enterprises of nomad conquerors. This nomad power over the long period from the expansion of Islam to European colonial intervention, which includes the rise and fall of several Turko-Mongol empires, is the subject of this anthology.The research focus is directed primarily to the conditions in which nomad power developed in the context of interrelated nomadic and sedentary ways of life. These interrelationships have been an essential aspect of the Collaborative Research Centre "Difference and Integration" (SFB 586) project from which this volume emerges. As Iran and the adjacent areas have historically been characterized by a complex geo-spatial environment of mobile and sedentary groups and political associations, they are especially suited to enquiry in this context.
Questions are particularly asked as to the circumstances, development patterns and effects of political and military alliances between nomadic and sedentary leaders or groups. Could nomad military power be enlisted in the strategies of sedentary rulers? What objectives did nomad allies pursue in these circumstances and with what, partly unexpected, results?
The volume also investigates the transformations that took place in states that emerged from nomad conquests. What political and military roles did rulers of 'post-nomadic' sedentary states assign to the descendants of nomad conquerors? What roles did these groups claim for themselves? And did nomadic traditions linger on in these states?
As well as the history of events and structures, contemporary conceptual approaches to nomad power and the visual representation of nomadic warfare in Persian miniature painting are also examined.
The anthology thus sheds light
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on an important aspect of the history of Iran and neighbouring countries that has so far not been examined systematically. It will be of interest to specialists in Islamic history, particularly in Iran and Central Asia, and to any historian looking for a transregional perspective on mediaeval and early modern military history.
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Autoren-Porträt
Dr. Wolfgang Holzwarth, geb. 1952, ist ein historisch arbeitender Ethnologe, dessen Forschungsinteressen sich auf die Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur Süd- und Mittelasiens seit der frühen Neuzeit konzentrieren. Nach dem Studium der Ethnologie und Iranistik an der Freien Universität Berlin war er unter anderem wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Iranistik der Universität Bamberg. Seit 2001 ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Orientalischen Institut der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, wo er derzeit zur Geschichte und Kultur Süd-Tadschikistans seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert forscht.Prof. Dr. Kurt Franz, Jahrgang 1966, lehrt Islamwissenschaft und arbeitet zur politischen, Sozial- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Vorderen Orients von 600 bis 1600. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt populären Aufstandsbewegungen, Sklaverei, Nomadismus und der Räumlichkeit historischer Prozesse. Dem Studium der Islamwissenschaft, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft und Geschichte in Göttingen folgte die Promotion in Hamburg. Nach Stationen am Sonderforschungsbereich 586, Universität Halle, als Wissenschaftlicher Referent des Orient-Institut Beiruts und einer Lehrstuhlvertretung in Hamburg ist er seit 2015 Professor für Islamwissenschaft an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Hier widmet er sich gegenwärtig besonders der historischen Geographie und Kartographie der islamischen Länder als Beitrag zu den Digital Humanities.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2015, XXI, 370 Seiten, 12 farbige Abbildungen, 5 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 18 x 24,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Kurt Franz, Wolfgang Holzwarth
- Verlag: Reichert
- ISBN-10: 3895009202
- ISBN-13: 9783895009204
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.2015
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Englisch
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