The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late
medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a
comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at
that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were
influenced by the actions and writings of their predecessors in
shaping strategy and the way in which they saw themselves.
Using a broad range of Persian, Arabic and Turkish texts, the
author offers new findings in the history of memory and
self-fashioning, demonstrating thereby the value of intertextual
approaches to historical and literary studies. The three main
themes explored include the formation of the ideal of the Ghazi
king in the eleventh century, the imitation thereof in fifteenth
and early sixteenth century Anatolia and India, and the process of
transmission of the relevant texts. By focusing on the
philosophical questions of ?becoming? and ?modelling?, Anooshahr
has sought alternatives to historiographic approaches that only
find facts, ideology, and legitimization in these texts.
This book will be of interest to scholars specialising in
Medieval and early modern Islamic history, Islamic literature, and
the history of religion.
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