Shajara

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Shajara

Evrim Binbaş

Related Terms:

  • Colophon (the end of a manuscript where the signatures and dates are found)
  • Hilye (an Ottoman design to praise the Prophet)
  • Tughra (the stylistic Ottoman sultan’s signature)

Related Khamseen Videos:

Emine Fetvacı, “Ottoman Illustrated Histories,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.

References:

Bağcı, Serpil. “From Adam to Mehmed III: Silsilenâme.” In The Sultan’s Portrait: Picturing the House of Osman, edited by Selmin Kangal, 188–201. Istanbul: İş Bankası Yayınları, 2000. Bağcı, Serpil. “From Adam to Mehmed III: Silsilenâme.” In The Sultan’s Portrait: Picturing the House of Osman, edited by Selmin Kangal, 188–201. Istanbul: İş Bankası Yayınları, 2000.

Binbaş, İlker Evrim. “Structure and Function of the Genealogical Tree in Islamic Historiography.” In Horizons of the World: Festschrift for Isenbike Togan, edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel, 465–544. Istanbul: Ithaki Press, 2011. Binbaş, İlker Evrim. “Structure and Function of the Genealogical Tree in Islamic Historiography.” In Horizons of the World: Festschrift for Isenbike Togan, edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel, 465–544. Istanbul: Ithaki Press, 2011.

Binbaş, Evrim. “The King’s Two Lineages: Esau, Jacob, and the Ottoman Mythical Imagination in the Subhatu’l-Ahbar.” In Genealogical Manuscripts in Global Perspective, edited by Markus Friedrich and Jörg Quenzer, 63–95. Hamburg: Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 2025. Binbaş, Evrim. “The King’s Two Lineages: Esau, Jacob, and the Ottoman Mythical Imagination in the Subhatu’l-Ahbar.” In Genealogical Manuscripts in Global Perspective, edited by Markus Friedrich and Jörg Quenzer, 63–95. Hamburg: Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 2025.

Morimoto, Kazuo. “Keeping the Prophet’s Family Alive: Profile of a Genealogical Discipline.” In Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies, edited by Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe, 11–23. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Morimoto, Kazuo. “Keeping the Prophet’s Family Alive: Profile of a Genealogical Discipline.” In Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies, edited by Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe, 11–23. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Morimoto, Kazuo. “A Compendium of Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy in Diagrammatic Format from the Late Tenth Century.” In Genealogical Manuscripts in Global Perspective, edited by Markus Friedrich and Jörg Quenzer, 33–62. Hamburg: Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 2025. Morimoto, Kazuo. “A Compendium of Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy in Diagrammatic Format from the Late Tenth Century.” In Genealogical Manuscripts in Global Perspective, edited by Markus Friedrich and Jörg Quenzer, 33–62. Hamburg: Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 2025.

Roxburgh, David. “Islamicate Diagrams.” In The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, edited by Jeffrey Hamburger, David Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 33–52. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research and Collection, 2022. Roxburgh, David. “Islamicate Diagrams.” In The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches, edited by Jeffrey Hamburger, David Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, 33–52. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research and Collection, 2022.

Citation:

Evrim Binbaş, “Shajara,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 18 February 2025.

Evrim Binbaş received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago. After seven years at Royal Holloway, University of London, he moved to the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn. He studies early modern Islamic history with a particular focus on the Timurid and Turkmen dynasties in the fifteenth century. His prize-winning first book, Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Currently Binbaş is working on three different publication projects: a critical edition of Yazdi’s Zayl-i Zafarnama, a handbook on the Timurid dynasty, and a monograph on the modalities of sovereignty. He also is managing a DFG-funded research project on genealogical trees written in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic between 1500 and 1922 CE.