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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348221803321

Autore

Nobuaki Kondo

Titolo

Persian documents : social history of Iran and Turan in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries / / edited by Kondo Nobuaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

9781134414437

1134414439

9781134414444

1134414447

9781280151330

1280151331

9780203508862

0203508866

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

New horizons in Islamic studies

Classificazione

POL000000SOC053000

Altri autori (Persone)

KondoNobuaki <1966->

Disciplina

955/.03

Soggetti

Nonfiction

Politics

Sociology

Iran History Sources

Asia, Central History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; MAPS; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Part I FORMAL ASPECTS; Part II NEW SOURCES; Part III WAQFS; Part IV FROM CITIES TO VILLAGES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia. The contributors examine four distinct elements of the documents:* the formal aspects of the sources are initially inspected* the second



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