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Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires - A Study of Politics and Invented Traditions (Hardcover)
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Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires - A Study of Politics and Invented Traditions (Hardcover)
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It has long been known that the origins of the early modern
dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and
Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to "Turco-Mongol" or
"Turcophone" war bands. However, too often has this connection been
taken at face value, usually along the lines of ethno-linguistic
continuity. Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires argues that
the connection between a mythologized "Turkestani" or
"Turco-Mongol" origin and these dynasties was not simply and
objectively present as fact. Rather, much creative energy was
unleashed by courtiers and leaders from Bosnia to Bihar (with
Bukhara and Badakhshan along the way) in order to manipulate and
invent the ancestry of the founders of these dynasties. Through
constructed genealogies, nascent empires founded on disorganized
military and political events were reduced to clear and stable
categories. With proper family trees in place and their power
legitimized, leaders became far removed from their true identities
as bands of armed men and transformed into warrior kings. This
created a longstanding pattern of false histories created by the
intellectuals of the day. Essentially, one can even say that
Turco-Mongol progenitors did not beget the Ottoman, Safavid,
Mughal, Mongol, and Shibanid states. Quite the contrary, one can
instead say that historians writing in these empires were the
ancestors of the "Turco-Mongol" lineage of their founders. Using
one or more specimens of Persian historiography, in a series of
five case studies, each focusing on one of these early polities,
Ali Anooshahr shows how "Turkestan", "Central Asia", or
"Turco-Mongol" functioned as literary tropes in the political
discourse of the time.
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