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Sto caricando le informazioni... The rise and rule of Tamerlane (1989)di Beatrice Forbes Manz
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a heroic effort (in my view) to make sense of a bewildering medley of places and names and personages of the Central Asian region that came under the sway of Timur (Tamerlane) in the late 14th century. Somewhat like the great Ginghiz or Chingiz of the Mongolian steppe in the previous century, Timur, a less important scion of the Chagatayid branch of the Turko-Mongol world, managed to establish a sort of empire by tirelessly taking his bands of followers into centre after centre of power and wealth all across the region, from the borders of Persia and Russia to the Indian plains. While he is known to the latter mainly as a blood-thirsty invader who sacked Delhi and left mountains of skulls, the author is at pains to draw out broader patterns of power and politics practiced by Timur in his career. In summary, the study demonstrates how Timur made personal loyalty the touchstone, and thus managed to achieve a delicate balance between his own control of the state and the demands of tribe or clan. The book as such is somewhat tiresome to read, just as the life portrayed itself was a tiring and exhausting one. In the end, Timur's empire did not last beyond him, as the system he had set up did not provide for any orderly process of choosing the successor. This basic character in the Turko-Mongol polity was also the weakness in the later Mughal empire in India during the 16th and 17th centuries, which could be considered another off-shoot of the same Mongol-Chagatayid political and cultural system. ( ) You can't really call this a biography; Forbes Manz makes no attempt to portray Tamerlane (or Temür, as she prefers to write) the man beyond a few remarks about his intelligence, military acumen, and cruelty. She does chronicle his career - the rise part in more detail than the rule one - but the real focus of the book is one the political system he rose within, took over, and transformed among the Turco-Mongol ruling class in Central Asia and Iran. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The great nomad conqueror Tamerlane rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his armies to the conquest of much of its territory, from Russia to India, from Turkestan to Anatolia. He was the last such ruler to unite the settled and steppe regions of Eurasia, and his career thus marks a transition in the history of the Middle East and Inner Asia from the period of nomad conquest and rule to that of the ascendency of the settled world. In this book, the first full scholarly study of Tamerlane, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines Tamerlane as the founder of a nomad conquest dynasty, sharing many traits with earlier nomad leaders, and also as a supremely talented individual. Using Tamerlane's career to examine many questions of broad historical and anthropological interest, Dr Manz discusses the mechanisms of state formation, the dynamics of tribal politics, and the relations of tribes to central leadership. The study examines Tamerlane's methods of control over both nomad and settled, and the relations between the two groups under him - as well as his transformation of the political culture of the tribal confederation within which he rose to power. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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