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- Title
A Mongol Mahdi in Medieval Anatolia: Rebellion, Reform, and Divine Right in the Post-Mongol Islamic World.
- Authors
BRACK, JONATHAN
- Abstract
The roots of the formation of a post-Mongol political theology that situated Muslim emperors and sultans at the center of an Islamic cosmos are found in the Ilkhanid court in late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Iran. This article investigates the case of the short-lived rebellion (1322-1323) of the Mongol governor of Rūm (Anatolia) and Mahdi-claimant Temürtash (d. 1327). It demonstrates how the discourse of religious reform was recruited to translate and support the claims of non-Chinggisid commanders to the transfer of God’s favor, thus opposing the Chinggisids’ heaven-derived exceptionalism. Exploring affinities with the Timurid appropriation of the mujaddicl tradition a century later, the article argues that Temürtash’s rebellion signaled the early stages of the dispersion of a new political language that freed Muslim kingship from the restrictive genealogical and juridical Sunni models of authority.
- Subjects
POLITICAL theology; HISTORY of revolutions; MONGOLS -- History; GENGHIS Khan, 1162-1227; MEDIEVAL kings &; rulers; MUSLIM history; HISTORY of Islam; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2019, Vol 138, Issue 3, p611
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article