« Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military », in : Reuven Amitai & Michal Biran, eds., Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden, Brill, 2005, pp. 425-457.
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Colin Mitchell, « « Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military », in : Reuven Amitai & Michal Biran, eds., Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden, Brill, 2005, pp. 425-457. », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.17462
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The division of elite society (ḫavāṣṣ) into two broad spheres – men of the pen (arbāb-i qalam) and men of the sword (arbāb-i sayf) – has long been a standard feature of model schemas of Muslim societies in political advice manuals, chronicles, and other court-produced sources. Of course, the relative dearth of material about plebeians and laypeople in medieval Islamic society has been the bane of social historians. Nonetheless, scholarly initiatives as of late point to a growing willingness t...