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The millennial sovereign: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0231160364 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780231160360 (hbk.)
Author	Moin, A. Azfar
Title	The millennial sovereign : sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam / [by] A. Azfar Moin
Publisher	New York : Columbia University Press, 2012
Physical desc.	[xx], 343 p. ; ill. (b&w), map, geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Series	South Asia across the disciplines
Note	CBL illustrations: p. [190], fig. 6.1 (In 07A.14); p. [191], fig. 6.2 (In 07A.5); p. [194], fig. 6.3 (In 07A.15).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-329) and index.
Contents	Islam and the millennium -- The lord of conjunction: sacrality and sovereignty in the age of Timur -- The crown of dreams: Sufis and princes in sixteenth-century Iran -- The alchemical court: the beginnings of the Mughal imperial cult -- The millennial sovereign: the troubled unveiling of the savior monarch -- The throne of time: the painted miracles of the saint emperor -- The graffiti under the throne.
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A
	Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects -- Islam
	Sovereignty -- Religious aspects -- Islam
	Muslim saints

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