... centuries, see Curry, “‘Meeting of the Two Sultans,’” 223–26, 237–38, 242n60 . 3 For a more detailed account of the dream and its implications, see Kafadar, Between Two Worlds , 8–9, 128–33 ; for a more recent reconception, see Brack, “Was Ede Bali a Wafâ‘î Shaykh?,” 349–57 . 4 A more...

..., ‘Ala al-Din Mohammad bin Takesh. 1 As a throng of people listened to him preach, Baha al-din addressed the shah in the following manner: “Oh king of this transient realm, know and be aware—though you do not know and are not aware—that you are a sultan and I am a sultan. They call you Sultan...

... the throne by defeating his brothers. Because this book was written in an era when the mystics had a large influence on the people and the elites, a closer look at the Jewish source’s influence over the author of the book can help us understand the Sufi tradition behind a sultan’s right to rule. Indeed...

... be anachronistic to read Almyna as a fem inist text, the play does p resent a strong female viewpoint, particularly in the eponym ous h ero in e s jus­ tification o f women to the Sultan in Act 4. Fearless in h er cri­ tique o f the Sultan s actions, Almyna dem onstrates the impiety and illogic o f the Sultan s...

..., NJ : Princeton University Press , 1997 . Hasluck F. W. Christianity and Islam under the Sultans . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1929 . Horden Peregrine , and Purcell Nicholas . The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History . Oxford : Blackwell , 2000...

..., Muslims quickly invested their growing wealth into an extensive infrastructure. For example: “After the Islamic conquest of Egypt (639–42), kings and sultans undertook many projects to build canals, channels, and dams to bring water from the Nile for agriculture and drinking water. When Sultan Salah al...

.... In the entrance hall of this palace hangs a portrait of the Sultan, who, according to an inscription on the wall “has been permitted to retain his rights and prerogatives as sovereign and his religious prestige as chief of the Mohammedan community,” and, who, but recently avowed for France on the part of Morocco...

..., and if one traces the journey of the Moonstone during modern times from the beginning of the novel, it is first owned by Tipoo, Sultan of Seringapatam, from whom it is stolen by Colonel Herncastle, who has the jewel for longer than any other character in the novel. (His name too is fitting. A hern...

... and the Sultan o f Sokoto to recognize the higher sovereignty of the British Crown," Apter draws attention to the im portance of the dram atic cerem ony fo r the installa­ tion o f the Sultan of Sokoto, a grand spectacle that served to reshape relations of authority and thus guaranteed the political displacem...

...-Iberia-Moroccan Black power embodied by the Marinid sultan, Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Othman: “I went to Sevilla, of course, to see the Giralda that legend attributes to the Black Sultan as also the Hassan Tower and the Koutoubia at Marrakesh. I don’t know if I told you that I wanted to make the legend...

... , 13 – 50 . Westport, CT : Greenwood , 1974 . Tuck Eve , Guess Allison , and Sultan Hannah . “ Not Nowhere: Collaborating on Selfsame Land .” In Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society , June 26 , 2014 . https://decolonization.files.wordpress.com/2014/06...

... the Emir Beshyr, Prince of the Druzes, she encouraged his people to revolt against Muhammad A li Pasha when he invaded Syria in 1831, leading him to assert tha t given her "political abilities, her unflinching opposition to him, and her fearless support of the Sultan," her "interference" had to be stopped...

...: ''Arabian Nigh ts Entertainments: consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody vow . . ., containing abetter account, o fthe Customs, Manners, and Religion o fthe Eastern Nations, viz.: Tartars, Persians and Indians...

... the occupation, of the editor Fahad Shah for creating Kashmir Wallah as a place where young Kashmiri writers expressed themselves, of the human rights activist Khurram Parvez for diligently documenting the violence against the people of Kashmir, of the journalist Aasif Sultan for his reporting...

... absorbed influences from Iran, Arabia, Samarkand, and Tashqand during Muslim rule. Under Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin’s patronage, the arts, including music and dance, flourished, aided by Sufi teachings. Hafiza dances thrived from Mughal times on but declined during Afghan and Sikh regimes. Later, under Dogra...

..., and landed in Malacca, a prosperous sultanate on the Malay Peninsular. He even views Fatiyah as possessing “black hair, dark eyes, and high cheekbones . . . like a Chinese person” ( QX , 83). Yet in the longhouse this stream of consciousness is interrupted by another theory of migration, as he recalls...

... version of the Charlemagne romance The Sultan of Babylon . 3 Furthermore, attending to interconnectedness in the world “before [Christopher] Columbus” contributes to more nuanced perceptions of medieval perspectives and medieval texts. 4 Phillips observes that scholarship on medieval travel writing...

... , “Rebels at Bareilly.” 34 By the 1890s fictionalized accounts of Tipu Sultan’s losses in 1799 also featured bhang-intoxicated failures. See Henty, Tiger of Mysore , 148 . 35 Small newspapers like the Cheltenham Looker-On and the Bucks Herald of Aylesbury carried this report on July 18...

... as Cities o f Salt (1987). This novel charts the dispossession o f a nom adic Bedouin co m m u n ity at the onset of oil m odernization in the fiction al G ulf state, o r Sultanate, o f M ooran, w hich closely resem ­ bles M unif's native Saudi Arabia. W hile carefully narrating the violent and traum atic...

..., it is th e cu rre n cy exch ange th a t c o n s tru c ts the w o rld as closed -circu it con necting "eve ry sort o f te rrito ria l entity, m o d e rn d e m ocra tic na tions and d u sty sultanates, pa rano id people's re publics, h e llh o le rebel states run by s to n e d b o y s ."30T h e g lo b a l...