(In)formal Diplomatic Networks and State Legitimation in the Premodern Islamic World: Mahmud Gawan (Bahmani vizier, 1463-1481) and the International Society. University of Antwerp
While it has long been recognized that the premodern Islamic world (until ca.1500) following the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate (1258) was knitted together through trade networks, cultural connections, and a shared religion, political fragmentation still prevails in most scholarly narratives. The project here proposed postulates that there were also common political practices, allowing for an "international society" to emerge, most visible in its ...