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Persische diplomatische Korrespondenz im Südindien des 15. Jahrhunderts


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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.162.1.0095




Riyāż ul-inšāʾ, a late 15th century collection of diplomatic letters from the Bahmanī Sultanate of central India, is an essential document of the political, cultural, and economic relations of the Sultanate with its neighbours, with Iran and with the Ottoman Empire. The letters show the intensive integration of a state on the edge of the Islamic world in the tightly knit network of trade and diplomatic relations across the Indian Ocean. Yet, the collection has not been studied in the last 30 years. Its author is the Grand Vizier Maḥmūd Gāvān (d. 1481 ad), who hailed from Northern Iran, rose from horse merchant to general and finally became the de facto ruler of the sultanate. We can assume from remarks in the letters that they were actually sent. This article shows some selected examples from Gāvān's extensive correspondence with sultans and diplomats, with celebrities like Jāmī, and with his relatives. Based on these passages, it analyses Gāvān's concept of Islamic politics, and of his own position as a general and Grand Vizier.

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