Korting Al al-Dawla al-Simnn between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate (Islamicate … 4) (English, Arabic and Persian Edition) – Martini Giovanni Maria

In ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate, Giovanni Maria Martini investigates the personality of a major figure in the socio-political and cultural landscape of Mongol Iran. In pursuing this objective, the author follows parallel paths: Chapter 1 provides the most updated reconstruction of Simnānī’s (d. 736/1336) biography, which, thanks to its unique features, emerges as a cross-section of Iranian society and…