The cosmic perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudi in fifteenth-century Iran / / by Alexandra W. Dunietz.

• VerfasserIn: Dunietz, Alexandra Whelan, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Islamicate Intellectual History 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī in Fifteenth-Century Iran Alexandra Dunietz explores the life and works of a provincial judge during a time of tribal rivalries and millennial expectations. During the decades preceding the rise of the Safavid regime and the establishment of Shiʿism throughout Iran, Maybudī participated in a network of intellectuals, administrators, and mystics, wrote prolifically, and worked as a judge within the Ak Koyunlu sphere. Drawing upon Maybudī’s commentaries and correspondence, the work focuses on the judge’s education, complex commentary on the poetry of ʿAlī, the foundational figure of Shiʿism, his professional life, and his death during a rebellion against Safavid control of his hometown. Maybudī exemplified the natural development of relations between Sunnis and Shiis, provincial elites and central authorities, rationalist philosophers and devotees of the esoteric.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- 1 Introduction / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- 2 Early Years and Education / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- 3 The Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i -ʿAlī / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- 4 Qadi Maybudī / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- 5 Last Years and Safavid Confrontation / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- 6 Conclusion / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- Bibliography / Alexandra W. Dunietz -- Index / Alexandra W. Dunietz.