Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as sources for historical research.
Genealogical writings are one form of such documentation that has demonstrated significant potential for addressing a wide range of research concerns, particularly for topics that receive little attention in historical chronicles and other state-centered narrative sources. However, while genealogical documentation has received some attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in scholarship on Persianate societies. The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based primarily on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials. The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene as well as readers in other fields interested in comparative research demonstrating the use of genealogical documentation as historical sources.
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While ancestry and lineage were fundamental preoccupations of Persianate societies, generating a mass of documentation in many different genres, such sources have rarely been analyzed in a systematic way that places nasab at the center of discussion. This agenda-setting volume finally does so, combining fascinating case studies from Hunza, Badakhshan, Bukhara,Fergana, Balochistan, the Gulf, and Qandahar. * Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA * Through insightful empirical studies spanning diverse milieus-from the towering heights of the Pamirs to the blue waters of the Persian Gulf, this volume highlights the rich potential of genealogical materials for advancing historical studies of the Persianate world and beyond. A must-read for scholars engaging with Persianate and Islamicate genealogical literature. * Kazuo Morimoto, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan * Jo-Ann Gross and Daniel Beben have made a major contribution to Persianate historiography by bringing together scholarship on the role genealogy has played in embedding the past in the present while claiming for it a timeless validity. The studies in this volume provide a comprehensive view across the Persianate world-from the Persian Gulf in the west to Central Asia in the north and northern India in the east-of how genealogy was wielded and manipulated to create social capital. * R.D. McChesney, author of An Afghan Prince in Victorian England: Race, Class and Gender in an Afghan-Anglo Imperial Encounter *
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Daniel Beben is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is the co-author with Daryoush Mohammad Poor of The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam: A Persian edition and English translation of the ' Ibrat-afza of Muhammad Hasan al-Husayni, also known as Hasan 'Ali Shah (I.B. Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2018).
Jo-Ann Gross is Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian History at The College of New Jersey, USA. Her book publications include Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th-21st Centuries, co-edited with Devin DeWeese (2018); The Letters of Khwaja 'Ubayd Allah Ahrar and his Associates, co-authored with Asom Urunbaev (2002), and the edited volume Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change (1992).
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Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
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Introduction: The Culture and Construction of Genealogical Documentation in the Persianate World (Daniel Beben and Jo-Ann Gross)
Part I: Genealogy, Translocality, and Narratives of Origin in Early Modern Persianate Societies
Chapter One: Beyond Sayyid-hood: Genealogy and Narrative in the Nasab-nama of Malik Jahanshah and the Isma?ili Tradition of Badakhshan (Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University)
Chapter Two: Solomon's Shadow: The Politics and Poetics of Baloch Genealogical Traditions (Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi, Princeton University)
Chapter Three: The Nasab-namas of Zibak: Connectivity between Sacred Lineage and Conversion from Zibak to Hunza (Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey)
Part II: Genealogy as Discourse and Praxis
Chapter Four: The Samanid File: Embedding Genealogy in 16th-Century Bukhara (Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Chapter Five: Crossing the Arab/Persian Divide in the Gulf: Persianized Arabs, Arabized Persians, and the Politics of Persianness (James Onley, Qatar National Library)
Part III: Sufism and Genealogy
Chapter Six: An A?rari Genealogical Compilation Spanning the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (Devin DeWeese, Indiana University)
Chapter Seven: Where Genealogies of Texts Meet Genealogies of Saints: Concretizing Imami Sunni Sufism and Female Leadership in the Afghan Mujaddidi Lineage (Waleed Ziad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Chapter Eight: Sacred Genealogies of Khwajas in the Ferghana Valley of the 19th Century (Yayoi Kawahara, University of Tokyo)
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