GREEN BOUGHS ON THE GRAVES: UNMOORING HERAT FROM IMPERIAL TIME.
The aim of this article is to explore how popular historical knowledge disrupts the spacetimes produced by imperial power. To this end, I present my reading of a shrine guide that was composed by Asil al‐Din Waʿiz in 1460 and that documents the city of Herat's blessed dead. This work, the Maqsad al‐...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 367 - 386 |
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