REFLECTIONS ON THE ISLAMIC LITERATURE OF THE GOLDEN HORDE: ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE QALANDAR-NĀME
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Date
2021
Authors
Schamiloglu, Uli
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GOLDEN HORDE REVIEW
Abstract
This article was presented at a roundtable devoted to a discussion of the
Qalandar-nāme. The author, basing himself on the 9 chapters of the monumental Qalandar nāme published to date with commentary, tries to compare this work with what else is
known about Islamic civilization in the Golden Horde in this period. In particular, he exa mines the account of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa and compares the Persian-language Qalandar-nāme with
the Turkic works on the history of the prophets (Qısas ül-änbiya), a Sufi manual (Muc
in ül mürid), two romantic poems (Qutb’s Xusrev u Şirin and Khorezmi’s Muhabbätname), and
a handbook of Islam (Nähc ül-färadis). The author finds similarities between the works of
Sufi literature and the Qalandar-nāme. He concludes by posing a series of questions for
future researchers, including whether this work can also be seen as a response to the Black
Death, similar to the Nähc ül-färadis, as the author has argued elsewhere.
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Type of access: Open Access, Golden Horde, Qalandar-nāme, Nähc ül-färadis, Black Death
Citation
Schamiloglu, U. (2021). Reflections on the Islamic Literature of the Golden Horde: On the Occasion of the Publication of the Qalandar-nāme. Golden Horde Review, 9(2), 264–271. https://doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2021-9-2.264-271