... Chakrabarty Dipesh . The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . Moin Azfar . The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . Yavari Neguin...

... important political figures dressed in sion of sacred kingship. The painting of portraits green—Ranjit Singh, his youngest wife, Rani Jin- of Guru Nanak (b. 1469–d. 1539), the first of the dan, and the Diwan of Multan, Sawar Mal, for ex- gurus, establishes a link between the originator of ample.103...

... Sampradāy .” PhD diss., Columbia University , 2020 . Moin A. Azfar . Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . Nayar Kamala Elizabeth , and Sandhu Jaswinder Singh . The Socially Involved Renunciate: Gurū...

... 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Islam sacred kingship Mongols What Is Islam? was Shahab Ahmed's first book, but it was written as if it were his last. 1 Its ambition is to explain, once and for all, the phenomenon of Islam—a veritable theory of everything Islamic. When faced...

... ideology rather expansive nature and was alwaF open to discus- predicated on the revival of the pre-Islamic past and on sion and reform.13 references to a sacred kingship (the monarchy’s aim Thus the colonial period marks the construction of was to weaken the strength...

... neoclassicism to revivalism of local vernaculars (1828). These effectively rendered Iran, an impres- including Bagh-­e Ferdows House (1840s, fig. 5) in 24. See Babaie, “Sacred Sites of Kingship.” On 25. Allen, “Chilminar Olim Persepolis,” 314. 27. Amanat, Pivot of the Universe, 17. Also see Shah...

... No. 2 18 Comparative Studies of Soutb Asia, mcaand tbe Middle East, VoI. XVIII No. 2 (1998) anarchical conditions bears testimony to the durability tom.” The master should render to his subjects “ex- of kingship as an Iranian institution. In the course of ternal protection...

... University Press 2020 federation sovereignty kingship republicanism imperial constitutionalism Constituent Assembly Federation, writes Frederick Cooper, was a potential “route out of empire.” 1 Cooper's account of French West African leaders' efforts to transform the French Empire...

... pollution of the sacred cow, subjects, entangled endeavors. This shared logic is locating the caste on the margins of the Hindu order. premised upon a reading of the past and the present The Chamars - and a few hundred members of other that brings together three recent and distinct theoreti...

... he considers meaningless retorts, like “Whatever Muslims say it is” or “There are many Islams, not one Islam.” There is no need, he argues moreover, to think in terms of meta-descriptions of “religion,” either as a way of life relegated to some abstract realm of the sacred or as an orthodox...

...-varnaṇa foregrounds a South Asian vision of kingship whereby power fosters both piety and pleasure. In Da'ud's rendition, piety comes first, as if his description of Govar were colored by the shade of his meditative hamd . Ascetics of various types, including female yogis, accrue spiritual merit...

... of kingship of the nation, directed all the eyes of the land this idea of justice in India during the Delhi and Mughal sul- obediently toward him, put all the lands at his feet, and tanates, its availability for use by rulers or subjects...

... . Tigers Are Our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2021 . Apffel-Marglin Fréderique , and Parajuli Pramod . “ ‘Sacred Grove’ and Ecology: Ritual and Science .” In Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky...

..., as interpreted by Ambedkar, had made caste divine but, crucially, not kingship. Caste, he wrote, “is sacred, not open to abrogation, amendment and not even to criticism.” 37 Through this three-tiered approach, where the Brahmin had the capacity to punish and even kill the king, with no means of violence...

... Christianity. This diversity brought with it different ideas about what to include in a space for Christian worship. Would there be a baptismal font? A vestry to allow for the storage of sacred articles? Efforts to resolve these disagreements usually yielded modular solutions, such as a (re)movable font...

... as—depending on context—religious, secular, colonial, royal, Sunni, or Shia, and Jaora's nawabs have exploited the shrines' multivalence to bolster their sovereignty, wearing multiple hats in an effort to assert their rule to whichever political, secular, or sacred authority came calling. Unencumbered...

... and kingship.” Dayanand rendered this values to the erosion of interpretive skills. As passage as, “I live in a kingdom which is admin- we have seen, he first proposed a plan for the istered righteously and in the country which is revival of the glorious past through the restora- awakened, due...

... and the the message of strength, the message of building, the writing of it. message of protecting our sacred things and our sacred King Hussein’s quote above comes from the 1959 Jorda- land, and the message of protecting the land of the Ar- nian government textbook, Tarikhna al-Hadith, and serves...

.... First, “secular science” represents an impoverished version Gutnon formally condemns all historic definitions of of the traditional “sacred science,” of which only Hinduism because he considers that the “principles” “reszdues” remain.14 Guinon then offers an additional that frame the tradition...

... . “ Rethinking Kingship and Authority in South Asia: Amber (Rajasthan), ca. 1560–1615 .” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 57 , no. 4 ( 2014 ): 549 – 86 . Subrahmanyam Sanjay . Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia . Cambridge...