{"product_id":"turkestan-and-the-rise-of-eurasian-empires-a-study-of-politics-and-invented-traditions-9780190693565","title":"Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires: A Study of Politics and Invented Traditions","description":"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\u003cbr\u003elines of ethno-linguistic continuity. \u003cem\u003eTurkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires \u003c\/em\u003eargues 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\u003cbr\u003eleaders 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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\u003cbr\u003etransformed 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\u003cbr\u003ethat 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\u003cbr\u003eTurco-Mongol functioned as literary tropes in the political discourse of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ali Anooshahr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190693565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAli Anooshahr\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is a scholar of Islamic Empires and focuses particularly on the transmissions of texts and individuals along networks that connected India, Iran, Central Asia, and the Ottoman Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39937570439283,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_158e2acc-f72e-44e9-9676-e40f44d5996c.jpg?v=1647994438","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/turkestan-and-the-rise-of-eurasian-empires-a-study-of-politics-and-invented-traditions-9780190693565","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}