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Part II - Courtly Skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2019

Emma J. Flatt
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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This chapter considers the importance of scribal skills, particularly letter writing, through a focus on the insha (epistolary) treatises of the Bahmani vizier, long-distance merchant and scholar, Mahmud Gavan. Against a background of court factionalism, Gavan advocated the cultivation of a genre of writing, insha or letter writing, which not only had strong practical uses for communication at court, but had the potential, if manipulated adroitly enough, to transform society, the recipient of the letter, and the individual writing the letter.

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The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates
Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
, pp. 165 - 301
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Courtly Skills
  • Emma J. Flatt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book: The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates
  • Online publication: 05 July 2019
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  • Courtly Skills
  • Emma J. Flatt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book: The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates
  • Online publication: 05 July 2019
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