Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences / edited by Jo Van Steenbergen.

"The concept, practice, institution and appearance of 'the state' have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to ta...

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