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Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145–1190 CE
Author:
Alka Patel
ISBN:
9789395474887
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
424 with 184 colour & numerous b/w illustrations
Size:
18 x 26 x 3 cm
Weight:
1 kg 465 grams
Price:
INR
7995
7196.00
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About the Book
Brings together all the architectural patronage attributed to the Shansabānīs in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Swat and lower Indus region).
• Creates an architectural biography of this pivotal polity and its trans-regional empire.• Treats built remains as independent, primary sources – and juxtaposes them with the principal texts – to create a complex understanding of the historical processes the Shansabānīs initiated throughout the landscapes they re-conjoined.• Provides the first analysis of this important epigraphic corpus.• Serves as the starting point for future research on the medieval epigraphy of Afghanistan and Pakistan.This book charts the origins and rise of the Shansabānīs, a nomadic-pastoralist or transhumant group from modern central Afghanistan. As they adapted and mastered the mores of Perso-Islamic kingship, they created a transregional empire unseen in the region for almost a millennium, since the Kushanas of the early centuries CE.The Shansabānīs’ imperialism of little more than a half-century belies their longue durée significance: they altered the geopolitical landscapes of eastern Khurasan through the Indo-Gangetic plains, reconnecting these regions in continuous flows of people, objects, and ideas that broadened the Persianate world and had consequences into the modern age of nation-states in Central and South Asia.
About the Author
Alka Patel
Alka Patel is Professor in the Department of Art History and in the PhD Program for Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Patel’s research has focused on South Asia and its connections with Iran and Central Asia, including overland and Indian Ocean maritime networks. Her works include
Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries
(Brill 2004), and special issues of
Ars Orientalis XXXIV
(2004) and
Archives of Asian Art LIX
(2007). Patel’s interests have expanded to include mercantile networks and architectural patronage in 18th-19th-century South Asia, as evidenced in
Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition
(co-ed. K. Leonard, Brill 2012). Her recent volume
India and Iran in the Longue Durée
(Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2017), co-edited with ancient Iranist Touraj Daryaee, analyzes Indo-Iranian connections over two millennia.
Editorial Reviews
“Professor Patel provides an exciting, thought-provoking critical analysis of the origins of the first Muslim dynasty to successfully establish itself as a political power in late-12th century north India.”
—Catherine B. Asher, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Minnesota
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