Shivan Mahendrarajah (Uni Research Fellow in the School of History

Broschiertes Buch

A History of Herat

From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane

Beschreibung

Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the â Pearlâ of the Iranian east

Autor

Dr. Shivan Mahendrarajah is a Research Fellow (2021-24), School of History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is the Managing Editor of Afghanistan: The Journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, which he co-founded in 2016. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Shivan is the author of articles on Islam, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongols, and Timurids; on counter-insurgency, al-Qaida, and the Taliban movements of Afghanistan and Pakistan. His first monograph, The Sufi Saint of Jam, was published by Cambridge University Press (2021).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781474499354
• ISBN-10: 147449935X
• Artikelnr.: 70124990