Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia: The T?q?y-T?m?rid Takeover of Greater M? War? Al-Nahr, 1598-1605

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BRILL, 2012 M11 9 - 366 pages
At the turn of the seventeenth century, a new dynastic party established authority across Central Asia. In "Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia," Thomas Welsford offers the first detailed account of how and why this happened. By examining some of the ways in which various social groupings helped to facilitate the T q y-T m rids acquisition of power, Welsford considers how such an instance of dynastic change might reflect the shifting loyalties, beliefs and preferences of an often overlooked wider subject population.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Sources and Methods
27
Chapter One Charismatic Loyalty
39
Chapter Two Clientelist Loyalty
91
Chapter Three Inertial Loyalty
141
Chapter Four Communal Loyalty
187
The TuqayTimurid Takeover and Its Echoes in Narrative Tradition
253
Conclusion
297

Bibliography of Primary Sources
305

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About the author (2012)

Thomas Welsford, D.Phil. (2008), is a VolkswagenStiftung Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Together with Alexandre Papas and Thierry Zarcone he has edited "Central Asian Pilgrims" (Klaus Schwarz, 2011).

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