Blain Auer
Blain Auer is Professor of the Study of Islam in South Asia at the University of Lausanne in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He specializes in Islam in the context of premodern South Asia. In particular, he studies the relationship between politics and religion in the Delhi Sultanate. His book titled Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion, and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate, was published by I.B. Tauris in 2012. His most recent book is titled In the Mirror of Persian Kings: The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India, and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
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Université de Lausanne
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1015 Lausanne
Phone: +41 216925300
Address: Section de langues et civilisations slaves et d'Asie du Sud
Faculté des Lettres
Université de Lausanne
Anthropole 4072
1015 Lausanne
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stake in this relationship is the question of who can sanction the highest form of punishment, i.e. the death penalty (siyāsa). Contemporary historians and scholars in the study of religion investigating the relationship between sharīʿa and siyāsa to reveal the extent and limits of sultanic power show a system of governance that allowed for the delegation of authority, particularly in the area of the judiciary, from the sultan down to viziers and judges. Some scholars depict the relationship between the ʿulamāʾ and the sultan as a kind of stand off. The actual dynamics of legal jurisdiction were much more complex. This study proposes a new interpretive framework for understanding the relationship between political
power and religious authority through a critical analysis of the criminal judicial system, law, and historical narrative. In particular, I consider a murder case described by Shams al-dīn Sirāj ʿAfīf in one of the most significant histories written in the later Delhi Sultanate, the Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī.
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stake in this relationship is the question of who can sanction the highest form of punishment, i.e. the death penalty (siyāsa). Contemporary historians and scholars in the study of religion investigating the relationship between sharīʿa and siyāsa to reveal the extent and limits of sultanic power show a system of governance that allowed for the delegation of authority, particularly in the area of the judiciary, from the sultan down to viziers and judges. Some scholars depict the relationship between the ʿulamāʾ and the sultan as a kind of stand off. The actual dynamics of legal jurisdiction were much more complex. This study proposes a new interpretive framework for understanding the relationship between political
power and religious authority through a critical analysis of the criminal judicial system, law, and historical narrative. In particular, I consider a murder case described by Shams al-dīn Sirāj ʿAfīf in one of the most significant histories written in the later Delhi Sultanate, the Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī.
Titre : La notion du « bien-être » dans les empires islamiques prémodernes de l'Asie du Sud
Cette présentation traite de la notion du bien-être dans les empires islamiques prémodernes de l’Asie du Sud. Il s’agit de l'idée de maslaha, c’est-à-dire du devoir que doit accomplir le souverain dans la protection de la religion, de la vie, de la propriété, des femmes et des enfants. Dans l'écriture de l'histoire perse et dans le genre de la littérature de conseils, les intellectuels musulmans de la cour décrivaient la responsabilité du Sultan dans le bien-être économique des sujets. Il y avait aussi une tension évidente entre le concept persan de la royauté/de la justice et les exigences d'un dirigeant musulman de suivre la charia. Ainsi, cette conférence examine d'abord la question du bien-être comme elle a été développée et discutée par les savants musulmans sunnites-hanafites pendant le sultanat de Delhi (de 1200 à 1400). Elle se penche ensuite sur les innovations dans le bien-être du public appelé sulh-i kull « la paix pour tous » - concept développé sous l'empereur moghol Akbar (r. 1556-1605) au cours du 16ème siècle.