Macht and Herrschaft in Indo-Persian Historiographical Texts from the Delhi Sultanate Period (1206 - 1526) (06)

• Subject Area: Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 257731206

This project focuses on two questions: (1) how are Macht and Herrschaft represented in Indo-Persian Literature from the Delhi Sultanate Period (1206 - 1526), and (2) how are these phenomena mediated in texts which are written either along ideal types or explicitly formulated models. Besides narrative strategies of expressing the (de-)legitimation of Herrschaft, we discuss the textual ways of representing the indirectly expressed forms of exercising it.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1167: Macht and Herrschaft – Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Stephan Conermann