The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-108-44728-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Snowflakes, a series of eight readers for students of classes 1 to 8, is meant primarily to inculcate in children a love for reading as well as appropriate reading skills. Just as each individual snowflake is unique, the content of the series is unique in terms of its literary linguistic and pedagogical merit. The selections include a wide range of stories, poems, prose pieces, plays and excerpts which have been collated from both classic and contemporary sources. Care has been to taken to ensure that they expose students to diverse genres and socio-cultural contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sela, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The origins and usages of Timur's heroic apocrypha; 2. Timur's birth and childhood; 3. Youth; 4. Inauguration and kingship; 5. Premonitions; 6. Central Asia in turmoil, 1700–50; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Sela, Ron
Ron Sela is Assistant Professor of Central Asian History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Ritual and Authority in Central Asia: The Khan's Inauguration Ceremony (2003) and co-author, with Scott C. Levi, of Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources (2009).