1st Edition
The Chobanids of Kastamonu Politics, Patronage and Religion in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia
Introduction 1. A Territory in Transformation: The Political and Intellectual Context of Anatolia in the 13th Century 2. A Political History of the Chobanid Dynasty 3. Literary and Architectural Patronage under the Chobanids 4. A Mirror for Princes for the Chobanids: Re-Interpreting the Siyar al-muluk 5. Islam under the Chobanids: Between Heresy and the Ulama 6. Socio-Political Aspects of North-Western Anatolia in the 13th Century 7. Epilogue: A 'Proto-Beylik' in 13th-Century Kastamonu
Biography
Bruno De Nicola is Research Associate at the Institute of Iranian Studies in the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna). His main areas of research are the cultural history of medieval and early modern Eurasia, the Mongol Empire and the study of Islamic manuscripts.
"This book sheds new light on an important but neglected aspect of Anatolian history in the Mongol period. By focussing on literary production in a dedicated region, northwest Anatolia, this book makes a significant contribution both to medieval Anatolian and to Persian literary cultural studies, bringing to light sources neglected by existing scholarship and showing the value of focused regional research both for literary and political history more broadly."
Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews, Scotland
