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The Badayi' al-vaqayi' of Zayn al-Din Mahmud b. Abd al-Jalil Vasifi is an early sixteenth century memoir and historical work written from a unique perspective, that of a non-elite, well-educated member of what we might refer to as "the middle class". This dissertation will argue…

This dissertation takes as its point of departure two key insights: first, that millenarian, universalist forms of thought were ubiquitous in late medieval and early modern intellectual history, whether in the Islamicate heartlands or Renaissance Europe; second, that the occult …