The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates - Couverture souple

Flatt, Emma J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108741649 ISBN 13 : 9781108741644

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of striking ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. People used multifaceted trans-regional networks - mercantile, kinship, friendship and intellectual - to move across the Persian-speaking world and to find employment at the Deccan courts. This movement, Emma J. Flatt argues, was facilitated by the existence of a shared courtly disposition. Engagement in courtly skills such as letter-writing, perfume-making, astrological divination, performing magic, sword-fighting and wrestling thus became a route to both worldly success and ethical refinement. Using a diverse range of treatises, chronicles, poetry and letters, Flatt unpicks the ways this challenged networks of acceptable behaviour and knowledge in the Indo-Islamicate courtly world - and challenges the idea of perpetual hostility between Islam and Hinduism in Indian history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emma J. Flatt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108741649
• ISBN 13: 9781108741644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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