Persian documents : social history of Iran and Turan in the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries /
edited by Kondo Nobuaki.
- 1 online resource
- New horizons in Islamic studies .
- New horizons in Islamic studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; MAPS; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Part I FORMAL ASPECTS; Part II NEW SOURCES; Part III WAQFS; Part IV FROM CITIES TO VILLAGES; INDEX
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After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia. The contributors examine four distinct elements of the documents:* the formal aspects of the sources are initially inspected* the second part focuses on newly discover.