Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis demonstrates the ways in which agricultural rhetoric — as utilized by the qazi Muhammad Wafa Karminagi in Tuhfat al-Khani, an eighteenth-century chronicle — served to valorize the political ascent of Muhammad Rahim, the Khanate of Bukhara’s first de jure Manghit sovereign. Such rhetoric functioned at multiple levels. Allusions to the agricultural figurative language and tropes present in previous Bukharan chronicles stylistically connected the narrative of Muhammad Rahim’s rise to a longer legacy of legitimate Bukharan sovereigns, despite the Manghit leader’s lack of agnatic Chinggisid descent. Furthermore, Karminagi’s exaltation of Bukhara’s agricultural prosperity under Muhammad Rahim’s guidance — juxtaposed against descriptions of agrarian ruination during the preceding khan’s reign — emphasized the Manghit ruler’s pragmatic strengths and signaled his administration’s aspiration to develop power claims based on capable social organization and a sovereign’s ability to protect and nourish the khanate’s countryside and peasantry.
DOI: 10.17615/m385-6277
Author: Luck, Caleb Ryan
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Topic: Eurasian Exchange Networks
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6887838612
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