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Auteur(s) : Noelle-Karimi, Christine Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The pearl in its midst [Texte imprimé] : Herat and the mapping of Khurasan, 15th-19th centuries / Christine Noelle-Karimi

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Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-374 p.-[23] f. de pl.) : ill., cartes, tables généalogiques, couv. ill. ; 30 cm

Collection : Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik, ISSN 2071-9949 ; 74
Denkschriften / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse ; 463. Band

Lien à la collection : Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik
Denkschriften - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [337]-374. Notes bibliogr. Glossaire. Index
Texte remanié de : Habilitation : Iranian studies : Universität, Bamberg : 2008
This study is devoted to the city of Herat and its changing fortune within the eastern Iranian provice oof Khurasan in early modern and modern times. Based on Persian primary sources, it gauges the role of political developments and cultural memory in the shaping of spatial concepts and regional structures. As the capital of the Timurid Empire, Herat's pivotal position reflected the political and spiritual centrality of an urban space embedden in a florescent agricultural and economic setting. Suffering a gradual decline in the subsequent centuries, the city receded to the sidelines of the historical narrative, a fact mirrored by a shift in focus in the sources from the local setting to larger strategic and ecological considerations pertaining to the province as a whole. With the delineation of fixed borders and the division of the region between Iran, Afghanistan and Transcaspia in the late 19th century, elastic concepts of sovereignty were replaced with hierarchical and centralistic notions of the state. Offering a long-term analysis of changing perceptions of power and space, this book provide the groundwork for a new understanding of the history of the region and its transition to modernity. [back cover of the book]

Sujet(s) : Frontières -- Afghanistan -- Iran -- Histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Frontières -- Iran -- Afghanistan -- Histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Herat (Afghanistan) -- Histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Khorāsān (Iran) -- Histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet