title: Ahmad al-Yamani and the Timurid Policy in the Eastern Caucasus
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Alibekov, Khizri G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-13T19:05:04Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-13T19:05:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Alibekov Kh. G. Ahmad al-Yamani and the Timurid Policy in the Eastern Caucasus. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, pp. 400–422.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.307
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33889
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: At the end of the first third of the 15th century, a prominent representative of the Muslim elite, a
  sayyid and theologian from Yemen, Ahmad al-Yamani (died in 1450), arrived in Dagestan and
  stopped in Kumukh, one of the major political centers of Mountainous Dagestan. He devoted
  the last two decades of his life to the spread and strengthening of Islam among the highlanders.
  Since that time, Kumukh turned into a large Muslim center and the “internal” Islamization of the
  mountain tribes began. The result of all this activity in Kumukh was that almost all of Dagestan
  was islamized by the end of 16th century. Researchers have presented different versions of Ahmad
  al-Yamani’s arrival in Dagestan. The version that he arrived in Dagestan on behalf of the
  Abbasid Caliph in Cairo to Islamize the non-Muslim peoples of Dagestan was considered the
  most widespread in the academic environment. A unique manuscript of the 15th century, which
  was recently discovered, belonging to the pen of al-Yamani, called “At-Tuhfa al-Ulugbekiyya
  / Ulugbek’s gift”, contains new valuable material about the life of al-Yamani. He wrote it as a gift
  for Ulugbek (the ruler of Maverannahr and Shahrukh’s son), while he was in the Timurid emirate.
  The manuscript’s material was translated by the author and introduced into scientific use for
  the first time. The studied material, as well as other Arabic-language sources of the 15th — 19th
  centuries, allow us to assert that al-Yamani’s arrival was inspired by Shahrukh, and the mission
  was not only Islamization, but also strengthening and extending Timurids’ positions in the
  Western Caspian region, which was one of the political and military interests of the Timurids’
  opponents — the Kara-Koyunlu Turkoman confederation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ahmad al-Yamani
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ulugbek
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Shahrukh
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Timurid Emirate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Shirvan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kara-Koyunlu
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mamluk Sultanate
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kumukh
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Islam
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Abu Iskhaq al-Kaziruni
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: At-Tuhfa al-Ulugbekiya
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ahmad al-Yamani and the Timurid Policy in the Eastern Caucasus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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