| Memoire Et Propagande a l'Epoque Timouride Contributor(s): Bernardini, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 291064023X ISBN-13: 9782910640231 Publisher: Peeters OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Language: French Published: December 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern - History | Middle East - General - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 950 |
| Series: Cahiers de Studia Iranica |
| Physical Information: 164 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ce volume reunit les cinq communications presentees dans le cadre des "Conferences d'etudes iraniennes Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater", organisees par l'Unite Mixte de Recherche "Mondes Iranien et Indien" en 2005 au College de France a Paris. Construit autour de la figure de Timur-e Lang (Tamerlan, ca. 1330-1405), l'ouvrage s'interroge sur la manipulation de la memoire historique et sur l'usage que peut en faire le pouvoir a travers la propagande politique en Asie centrale et en Iran au XVe siecle, dans l'empire timouride. Au plus pres des sources persanes, l'auteur analyse le discours des chroniqueurs de la cour de Timur et examine le processus de construction des origines vertueuses du souverain par les historiens de son epoque. En miroir, cette etude s'interesse aux textes historico-litteraires et notamment a la transposition epique de la tradition historiographique. Sur les traces de Timur, de l'Asie centrale a l'Empire ottoman a l'ouest et aux profondeurs de l'Inde a l'est, les sources font emerger deux images contrastees et forgees du conquerant et de ses actions: combattant pour la foi et roi vertueux, Timur apparait en meme temps comme un chef de guerre destructeur et comme un etre demoniaque. Cette memoire manipulee a des fins ideologiques integrera durablement le discours historique des siecles ulterieurs. This volume contains the texts of five Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Distinguished lectures on Iranian Studies, organized by the Unite Mixte de Recherche "Mondes Iranien et Indien", and delivered in 2005 at the College de France in Paris. This book inquires into the manipulation of the historical memory of the figure of Timur-e Lang (Tamerlane, ca. 1330-1405) and into the uses that power-holders made of it through political propaganda in Central Asia and Iran during the 15th century, in the Timurid empire. Following up on Persian sources, the author analyses the discourse of chroniclers at Timur's court, and examines how historians of his time constructedthe sovereign's virtuous origins. Interest is shown in this figure's reflection in historico-literary texts, in particular in the epic transpositionof the historiographical tradition. On Timur's tracks from Central Asia to the Ottoman Empire in the West and deep into India in the East, the sources build up two contrasting images of the conqueror and his actions: as a virtuous ruler and fighter for the Faith, on the one hand, and, on the other, as a destructive war lord and a demoniac being. This memory, manipulated for ideological purposes, has become a lasting part of the historical discourse formulated in later centuries. |
