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This article discusses the works of Qadi Niẓam al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 1279–83), a prominent litterateur operating at the court of the Juwayni dynasty of administrators who served the Ilkhans. Writing in Arabic, Niẓam al-Dīn composed both poems and letters for his patrons, shedding new light on the intellectual life of the Ilkhanate as well as on otherwise poorly attested historical events such as the fall of Isfahan to the Mongols. Based on unpublished manuscripts, this study examines this neglected figure and his place in Ilkhanid intellectual and political life.
Contributors are: Giancarlo Casale, Annabel Teh Gallop, Rıfat Günalan, Patricia Herbert, Jana Igunma, Midori Kawashima, Abraham Sakili and Michael Talbot
Contributors are: Giancarlo Casale, Annabel Teh Gallop, Rıfat Günalan, Patricia Herbert, Jana Igunma, Midori Kawashima, Abraham Sakili and Michael Talbot
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This article examines the Arabic manuscripts of Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, focussing on the Abdul Mulku Zahari collection. In particular, it studies manuscripts of texts composed by the ruler of Buton, Sultan Muḥammad ʿAydarūs (r. 1824–1851) who wrote a large number of Sufi works in both Arabic and Wolio, the literary language of the Butonese court. The manuscripts attest not only the religious and intellectual culture of the court, but also Buton’s connections with the wider Islamic world including the Hijaz and its reformist Sufi movements. The article also situates Muḥammad ʿAydarūs’s Arabic works in the broader context of Butonese history and textual production.