Journal article
REVIEWS
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, v 76(1)
01 Feb 2013
Abstract
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Reviews: Central Asia Sela's well-argued and concise study of a group of Persian and Turkic heroic stories devoted to the life of Amir Timur, or Tamerlane, brings to our attention a large body of literature that has until now been generally ignored or discounted by previous scholars of Central Asian history. To attain these goals the author creates a rather imaginative structure for the monograph, inspired by the structure of the Timur-nama itself. [...]while the first chapter contains the historiographic and textual introduction to the work, the following four chapters contain translations from selections of the works, devoted to Timur's birth and childhood, his youth, his inauguration and rule, and finally premonitions regarding Central Asia's fate after his death. To be sure, the early eighteenth century has been particularly underserved by historians of Central Asia, and The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane will, hopefully, contribute substantially to re-evaluations of that era. [...]historians of modern Central Asia would do well to apply to their own works Sela's emphasis on manuscript sources, his imaginative use of popular literature, and his critical approach to much current scholarship, whether grounded in sovietological assumptions or Saidian conceits.
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- Title
- REVIEWS
- Creators
- Allen J Frank
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, v 76(1)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000316191800030
- Other Identifier
- 991014878430004721
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