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Publications

IMPAcT’s aims are supported through the edition and translation of key texts and the publication of articles, monographs and edited volumes on relevant topics.

Fresh from the press

Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13^th-15^th Century Tabriz. Edited by Judith Pfeiffer (Iran Studies 8). Leiden/New York: Brill, 2014.

Recent publications

Matthew Melvin-Koushki. “The Occult Challenge to Philosophy and Messianism in Early Timurid Iran: Ibn Turka’s Lettrism as A New Metaphysics.” In Unity in Diversity. Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam, edited by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, 247-276. Brill: Leiden/New York, 2014.

Ertuğrul Ökten. “Scholars and Mobility: A preliminary assessment from the perspective of al-Shaqāyiq al-Nu‘māniyya.” Journal of Ottoman Studies 41 (2013): 55-70.

Ertuğrul Ökten. “Imperial Aqquyunlu Construction of Religious Establishments in the Late Fifteenth Century Tabriz.” In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13^th-15^th Century Tabriz, edited by Judith Pfeiffer, 371-385. Leiden/New York: Brill, 2014.

Judith Pfeiffer. “‘Faces Like Shields Covered with Leather:’ Keturah’s Sons in the Post-Mongol Islamicate Eschatological Traditions.” Contribution to Horizons of the World: Festschrift for İsenbike Togan, edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel, 557-94. Istanbul: İthaki, 2011.

Judith Pfeiffer. “Protecting Private Property vs. Negotiating Political Authority: Nur al-Din b. Jaja and his endowments in thirteenth century Anatolia.” In Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia, edited by Robert Hillenbrand, A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva, 147-165. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Judith Pfeiffer. “The canonization of cultural memory: Ghāzān Khān, Rashīd al-Dīn, and the construction of the Mongol past.” In Rashīd al-Dīn. Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran, edited by Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, 57-70. London: The Warburg Institute/Turin: Nino Aragno, 2013.

Judith Pfeiffer. “From Baghdad to Maragha, Tabriz, and beyond: Tabriz and the multi-cephalous cultural, religious, and intellectual landscape of the 13^th to 15^th century Nile-to-Oxus region.” Introduction to Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13^th-15^th Century Tabriz, edited by Judith Pfeiffer, 1-11. Leiden/New York: Brill, 2014.

Judith Pfeiffer. “Confessional Ambiguity vs. Confessional Polarization: Politics and the Negotiation of Religious Boundaries in the Ilkhanate.” In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13^th-15^th Century Tabriz, edited by Judith Pfeiffer, 129-168. Leiden/New York: Brill, 2014.

Judith Pfeiffer. “‘Not every head that wears a crown deserves to rule.’ Women in Il-Khanid political life and court culture.” In Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq, edited by Rachel Ward, 23-29 (Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Exhibition Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq). London: The Courtauld Gallery in Association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2014.

Judith Pfeiffer. “Mawlavi-Bektashi rivalries and the Islamization of the public space in late Seljuq Anatolia.” In: Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia, edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno de Nicola and Sara Nur Yildiz, 311-327. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.

Judith Pfeiffer. “Teaching the Learned: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī’s Ijāza to Muʾayyadzāda ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Efendi and the Circulation of Knowledge between Fārs and the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century.” In The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning. Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, edited by Maurice A. Pomerantz and Aram Shahin, 284-332. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015 [2016].

Forthcoming publications and work in progress

Judith Pfeiffer. “Rashīd al-Dīn’s Bayān al-ḥaqāʾiq and its Sitz im Leben. A preliminary appreciation.” Introduction to Rashīd al-Dīn’s Bayān al-ḥaqā’iq, edited by Judith Pfeiffer. (In preparation).

Ertuğrul Ökten. ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (1414-1492): An Essay on Timurid intellectual and spiritual contests. (Under Review).

Rashīd al-Dīn. Kitāb al-Sulṭāniyya (ed. Judith Pfeiffer; in preparation).

New Series on Islamicate Intellectual History. Studies and Texts

Call for Manuscripts

Fresh from the press (Islamicate Intellectual History 1):

The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī in Fifteenth-Century Iran

Alexandra W. Dunietz

In The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī in Fifteenth-Century Iran Alexandra Dunietz explores the life and works of a provincial judge during a time of tribal rivalries and millennial expectations. During the decades preceding the rise of the Safavid regime and the establishment of Shiʿism throughout Iran, Maybudī participated in a network of intellectuals, administrators, and mystics, wrote prolifically, and worked as a judge within the Ak Koyunlu sphere. Drawing upon Maybudī’s commentaries and correspondence, the work focuses on the judge’s education, complex commentary on the poetry of ʿAlī, the foundational figure of Shiʿism, his professional life, and his death during a rebellion against Safavid control of his hometown. Maybudī exemplified the natural development of relations between Sunnis and Shiis, provincial elites and central authorities, rationalist philosophers and devotees of the esoteric.

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