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When Worlds Elide: Mughal Texts on Iranian Kingship, Religion, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century

dc.contributor.authorQadri, Mahira
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorColin Mitchellen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerKrista Kesselringen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerChristopher Austinen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorColin Mitchellen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-17T13:57:32Z
dc.date.available2020-12-17T13:57:32Z
dc.date.defence2020-12-10
dc.date.issued2020-12-17T13:57:32Z
dc.description.abstractMughal texts demonstrate a fundamental shift in official attitudes towards contemporaneous Iran from 1526 to 1605. While these texts initially presented a submissive imperial position, they later depicted the Mughals as superior to their Safavid neighbours. In the spheres of kingship and religion, Mughal texts promoted the padshahs as more just and tolerant. This aura of dynastic superiority also became a dominant feature of Mughal cultural production, where the Mughals boasted their status as generous patrons. The mass emigration of Safavid-Iranian figures (shaykhs, Sufis, and artists) to the Mughal court and the heterogeneous nature of Mughal imperial identity in the South Asian environment also contributed to this superior self-idealization. In this process, the Mughals gradually understood themselves as the ideological centre of the notion of the Persian cosmopolis, a concept bound by the use of a shared language and the mobility of texts and learned bodies across space.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/80116
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSafavid Iranen_US
dc.subjectMughal Indiaen_US
dc.subjectPersian Cosmopolisen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectKingshipen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.titleWhen Worlds Elide: Mughal Texts on Iranian Kingship, Religion, and Culture in the Sixteenth Centuryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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