Ṣihr and Muṣāhara in Mamluk Royal Relations Transmitting Power and Enlarging Networks Through In-... more Ṣihr and Muṣāhara in Mamluk Royal Relations Transmitting Power and Enlarging Networks Through In-Law Ties in Pre-Modern Egypt Albrecht Fuess L'histoire du pacha exemplaire marié à une sultane extravagante Genre, politique et récit intime à la cour ottomane au xvii e siècle Juliette Dumas Professional Lineages and Transmission Family Legacy Versus Regional Style: Tracing Three Generations of Woodworkers in Māzandarān (Iran, 1460s-1500s) Sandra Aube La formation d'un calligraphe dans le monde iranien Francis Richard Managing Households and Family Estates The Rażavī Sayyids of Mashhad Families within a Family Christoph U. Werner Documenting the Barnābādī Estate Establishment and Growth of a 'Saintly' Family in Fifteenth to Eighteenth-Century Herat Maria Szuppe Creating a Family Property in Early Modern Iran Socioeconomic Activities of Najafqulī Khān Dunbulī of Tabriz in the Eighteenth Century Naofumi Abe
Sacred places and religious institutions such as shrines, mausoleums, and khānqāhs, alongside mos... more Sacred places and religious institutions such as shrines, mausoleums, and khānqāhs, alongside mosques and madrasas, in Muslim societies of the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and Africa have drawn the attention of various researchers. In the history of Iran, numerous scholars have studied the shrine of Sheykh Ṣafī al-Dīn from various viewpoints, such as political, social, religious, art and architectural history. Some of them, analyzing not only narrative sources but also archival materials, have pointed out the various aspects of the shrine's socioeconomic character, religious issues, and the political relationship with the successive dynasties. However, very few studies have focused on the shrine following the collapse of the Safavid dynasty in the early eighteenth century. In addition to the lack of interest in the former dynastic shrine which lost patronage of the central authorities as well as social influence due to the political changes, another reason for this trend is the growing importance of the Shi'ite sacred shrines of ʿAtabāt, Mashhad, and other Shi'ite emāmzādes from the sixteenth century onward. It is reasonable that these "orthodox" Shiʿite shrines attracted more researchers than the Safavid shrine. Nevertheless, an analysis of the Safavid shrine after the fall of the Safavids will be useful for a better understanding of its long history. More importantly, the study of a shrine, diminished in its significance, besides being given relatively less importance throughout history, will shed light on the struggles, agency, and self-help efforts of a religious institution for survival. This study proposes Persian texts and Japanese translation of eight decrees in post-Safavid Iran from the Ardabil documents, which are some
After the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, the shrine of Shaykh Ṣafī faced a decline due to b... more After the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, the shrine of Shaykh Ṣafī faced a decline due to budgetary shortages and the diminution of people's veneration. Hence, contemporary scholars have rarely studied the Safavid shrine during the second half of the 18th and 19th centuries. The shrine, however, survived throughout the centuries, preserving its buildings and precious movable properties such as manuscripts and Chinese porcelains until today. The Ṣarīḥ al-Milk, a well-known inventory of the real estate belonging to the Safavid shrine, was composed in two versions, one in the reign of Shāh Ṭahmāsb and one under Shāh ʿAbbās I. We have recently found that two copies of a synopsized version of the shrine's inventory (Kitābcha-ʾi Khulāṣa-ʾi Ṣarīḥ al-Milk), which have not been correctly catalogued, were newly written at some point between the years 1885 and 1891. This article attempts to locate this synopsized version in the shrine's tradition of compiling inventories of immovable properties even back to the pre-Safavid period. Some documents prove that during and after the Safavid dynasty, the Ṣarīḥ al-Milk had been continuously used for the management of the shrine's waqf properties as documentary evidence. The 19th century synopsized version aimed to survey the status quo of the waqf properties registered in the two previous version of the Ṣarīḥ al-Milk, as the shrine was experiencing decline with the shrinkage of waqf revenues. Available documentation indicates that the synopsized version of the inventory, summarizing the two previous versions, is likely to have been compiled based on a couple of different manuscripts in an attempt to cover necessary items of information. Patterned precisely on the layout of the two Keywords: Shrine of Shaykh Ṣafī, Ṣarīḥ al-Milk (inventory of real estate), 19th century synopsized version of the Ṣarīḥ al-Milk, Qajar dynasty, Survey of the status quo of waqf properties : 19
Families, Authority, and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East, 2021
Ṣihr and Muṣāhara in Mamluk Royal Relations Transmitting Power and Enlarging Networks Through In-... more Ṣihr and Muṣāhara in Mamluk Royal Relations Transmitting Power and Enlarging Networks Through In-Law Ties in Pre-Modern Egypt Albrecht Fuess L'histoire du pacha exemplaire marié à une sultane extravagante Genre, politique et récit intime à la cour ottomane au xvii e siècle Juliette Dumas Professional Lineages and Transmission Family Legacy Versus Regional Style: Tracing Three Generations of Woodworkers in Māzandarān (Iran, 1460s-1500s) Sandra Aube La formation d'un calligraphe dans le monde iranien Francis Richard Managing Households and Family Estates The Rażavī Sayyids of Mashhad Families within a Family Christoph U. Werner Documenting the Barnābādī Estate Establishment and Growth of a 'Saintly' Family in Fifteenth to Eighteenth-Century Herat Maria Szuppe Creating a Family Property in Early Modern Iran Socioeconomic Activities of Najafqulī Khān Dunbulī of Tabriz in the Eighteenth Century Naofumi Abe
『アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究(Journal of Asian and African Studies)』94, 2017
Watabe, Ryoko & Abe, Naofumi 2017: Persian Accounting Manual from the Early Safavid Period (mid-1... more Watabe, Ryoko & Abe, Naofumi 2017: Persian Accounting Manual from the Early Safavid Period (mid-16th century) : Text and Japanese Translation of Chapters on Accounting Techniques from Ghiyāth al-Dīn Kirmānī’s Treatise on Accountancy. Journal of Asian and African Studies no.94: 383-485.
The middle of the eighteenth century reportedly witnessed the emergence of the new literary movem... more The middle of the eighteenth century reportedly witnessed the emergence of the new literary movement in Persian poetry, called the " bāzgasht-e adabi, " or literary return, which rejected the seventeenth-century mainstream Indian or tāza-guʾi style. This literary movement recently merits increased attention from many scholars who are interested in wider Persianate cultures. This article explores the reception of this movement in late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Iran and the role played by the Qajar royal court in it, mainly by the analysis of a specific sub-genre of tazkeras, called " royal-commissioned tazkeras, " which were produced from the reign of the second Qajar monarch Fath-ʿAli Shāh onward. A main focus will be on the reciprocal relationship between the court poets/literati and the shah, which presumably somehow affected our understanding of Persian literature today.
This study examines a dispute over ownership of the village of Amīrzakariyā in the Arvanaq region... more This study examines a dispute over ownership of the village of Amīrzakariyā in the Arvanaq region of Iran in the 19th century. Using Persian archival sources, especially sharī'a documents, I analyze the development and resolution of the legal dispute and the changing understanding of the case, including the issue of water rights. These sources provide an example of " ambivalent ownership, " i.e., a discrepancy between the legal facts of the case and competing understandings of land ownership in practice. The case demonstrates that legal transactions were sometimes inadequately understood or accepted in practice by third parties, with the result that the effects of a legal transaction were not always absolute in 19th-century Iran, as evidenced by the attempts of local 'ulamā' and villagers to restrict the landlord's property rights in favor of preserving the established local order.
This article examines strategies of local Iranian notables for preserving wealth in the nineteent... more This article examines strategies of local Iranian notables for preserving wealth in the nineteenth century, focusing on Fatḥ-'Alī Khān Donbolī of Tabrīz. An analysis of his two inventories and other archival materials reveals that he and his family utilized "property retention tactics," which is the de facto retention and administration of family members' immovable properties without legal contracts. These tactics permitted the family to circumvent the rules of Islamic inheritance law and to prevent the fragmentation of property. Female relatives played a crucial role in these tactics and in the preservation of the family's wealth. This study also shows the importance of the comparison of Islamic legal documents (sharī'a documents) and other types of archival materials for a better understanding of property ownership in Muslim majority societies.
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