The Cosmic Perils of Qadi ?usayn Maybudi in Fifteenth-century Iran (Islamicate Intellectual History, 1)

Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Transliteration 11 List of Abbreviations 12 Chapter 1 14 Introduction 14 Sources 19 Chapter 2 27 Early Years and Education 27 Yazd From Pre-Islamic Times to the Mongols 27 The Timurid Period 30 The Kara Koyunlu Period 34 The Ak Koyunlu Period 36 Maybudī’s Family 39 Maybudī’s Education 46 Chapter 3 64 The Sharḥ-i Dīvān-i ʿAlī 64 The Favātiḥ 71 The Commentary 109 Chapter 4 125 Qadi Maybudī 125 Chapter 5 167 Last Years and Safavid Confrontation 167 The Jām-i gītī-numā 168 Death 171 Chapter 6 182 Conclusion 182 Bibliography 186 Index 204 In The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī in Fifteenth-Century Iran Alexandra Dunietz explores the life and works of a provincial judge during a time of tribal rivalries and millennial expectations. During the decades preceding the rise of the Safavid regime and the establishment of Shiʿism throughout Iran, Maybudī participated in a network of intellectuals, administrators, and mystics, wrote prolifically, and worked as a judge within the Ak Koyunlu sphere. Drawing upon Maybudī's commentaries and correspondence, the work focuses on the judge's education, complex commentary on the poetry of ʿAlī, the foundational figure of Shiʿism, his professional life, and his death during a rebellion against Safavid control of his hometown. Maybudī exemplified the natural development of relations between Sunnis and Shiis, provincial elites and central authorities, rationalist philosophers and devotees of the esoteric. "Alexandra Dunietz explores the life and works of a provincial judge during a time of tribal rivalries and millennial expectations. During the decades preceding the rise of the Safavid regime and the establishment of Shi'ism throughout Iran, Maybud? participated in a network of intellectuals, administrators, and mystics, wrote prolifically, and worked as a judge within the Ak Koyunlu sphere. Drawing upon Maybudi's commentaries and correspondence, the work focuses on the judge's education, complex commentary on the poetry of 'Ali, the foundational figure of Shi'ism, his professional life, and his death during a rebellion against Safavid control of his hometown. Maybudi exemplified the natural development of relations between Sunnis and Shiis, provincial elites and central authorities, rationalist philosophers and devotees of the esoteric." -- Back cover Acknowledgements Transliteration List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: Themes and sources 2. Early years and education 3. The Sharḥ-i Divan-i 'Ali 4. Qadi Maybudi 5. Last years and Safavid confrontation 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index.