The millennial sovereign
Subtitle: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam
By: A. Azfar Moin
Series: South Asia across the disciplines
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780231160360; 9780231504713
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Muslim saints; Sovereignty; Islam
Description: "This book brings into dialogue two major fields of scholarship that are rarely studied together: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam. In doing so, it offers an original perspective on both. In historical terms, the foucs here is on the Mughal empire in sixteenth-century India and its antecedents and parallels in Timurid Central Asia and Safavid Iran."--Introduction, p. [1].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Islam and the millennium; title: The lord of conjunction: sacrality and sovereignty in the age of Timur; title: The crown of dreams: Sufis and princes in sixteenth-century Iran; title: The alchemical court: the beginnings of the Mughal imperial cult; title: The millennial sovereign: the troubled unveiling of the savior monarch; title: The throne of time: the painted miracles of the saint emperor; title: The graffiti under the throne.