Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE
Alka Patel
Brings together all the architectural patronage attributed to the Shansabānīs in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Swat and lower Indus region)
- Creates an architectural biography of this pivotal polity and its trans-regional empire
- Treats built remains as independent, primary sources – and juxtaposes them with the principal texts – to create a complex understanding of the historical processes the Shansabānīs initiated throughout the landscapes they re-conjoined
- Provides the first analysis of this important epigraphic corpus
- Serves as the starting point for future research on the medieval epigraphy of Afghanistan and Pakistan
This book charts the origins and rise of the Shansabānīs, a nomadic-pastoralist or transhumant group from modern central Afghanistan. As they adapted and mastered the mores of Perso-Islamic kingship, they created a transregional empire unseen in the region for almost a millennium, since the Kushanas of the early centuries CE.
The Shansabānīs’ imperialism of little more than a half-century belies their longue durée significance: they altered the geopolitical landscapes of eastern Khurasan through the Indo-Gangetic plains, reconnecting these regions in continuous flows of people, objects, and ideas that broadened the Persianate world and had consequences into the modern age of nation-states in Central and South Asia.
Год:
2022
Издательство:
Edinburgh University Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
424
ISBN 10:
1474482244
ISBN 13:
9781474482240
Файл:
PDF, 71.27 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022