Shivan Mahendrarajah

A History of Herat

From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 241mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781474499347
• ISBN-10: 1474499341
• Artikelnr.: 63761575

Autorenporträt

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).