EAN: 9783700185178

EIN BESTSELLER DER ISLAMISCHEN VORMODERNE - PHI...

The Persian world history ¿abib al-siyar is one of the most copied historiographical works in
Islamic intellectual history. Written by the Iranian historian Khvandamir in Herat during the
rule of the Shi¿i Safavids in the 1520s  the book was subsequently adapted to the religious and
political expectations of his later patrons  the Sunni Mughals in India  and circulated through
hundreds of copies spread across the entire eastern Islamic world. In Ein Bestseller der
islamischen Vormoderne (An Early Modern Bestseller)  Philip Bockholt analyses copies of the
work and offers new insights into their readership at various locations in the premodern
Islamic world. Taking cues from reception  provenance  and historical readership studies  he
examines ownership and readership notes  endowment seals and illustrations in order to shed
light on the owners and readers of the work between the 16th and early 20th centuries. By
giving an in-depth analysis of marginal notes found in the extant copies  he situates the ¿abib
al-siyar within the broader framework of Islamic book culture and shows that the chronicle was
part of a larger canon of texts. This canon was read within a greater Persianate world
including not only the Safavid court in Iran and the Mughal court in India  but also places on
the Deccan as well as in Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire. This study thus offers
comprehensive insights into the transregional transmission of Persian historiography as well as
regionally specific readership practices.

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