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The focus of this dissertation is the Jalayirid dynasty, a family of Muslim sultans who ruled Arab Iraq, Diyarbakr and Azarbayjan in the years following the dissolution of the Mongol Ilkhanate, from 736/1335 to 813/1410. Specifically, the aim of this study is to demonstrate the …

This dissertation explores the intersections between religion, Islamic legitimacy, and historiography. It investigates the ways Muslim historians, living in India during a dynamic and conflictual age, attempted to narrate the religious and ethical values of Muslim courts and the…

The image of the ghazi king (who leads religiously inspired raids) has been analyzed at the moment of its fullest and earliest manifestation in Islamic historiography during the reign of Mahmud of Ghazna in the early eleventh century CE. This is done by reconstructing the cultur…