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Timurid epistolary collections as a source for social history
- Abstract:
- This article explores some ways in which epistolary collections can serve as a source for the social history of the premodern Islamicate East, especially the Timurid period (9th/15th c.). Inshāʾ and other epistolary collections are of interest because very few Timurid documents are accessible to historians, if they survived at all. Insofar as epistolary conventions and inshāʾ style tended to endure over time, there are opportunities for comparing Timurid inshāʾ collections with their predecessors, and with documents of the Invisible East corpus.
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- Invisible East
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- Document of the Month
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2026-06-30
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- 20
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English
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- Danielle Zwarthoed
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- 2026
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