The King’s Two Lineages: Esau, Jacob, and the Ottoman Mythical Imagination in the Subhatu’l-Ahbar

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. History of Genealogy and Manuscripts Studies: New Perspectives for a Crosscultural and Trans-epochal Approach 1
4. West and Central Asia
5. A Compendium of Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy in Diagrammatic Format from the Late Tenth Century 31
6. The King’s Two Lineages: Esau, Jacob, and the Ottoman Mythical Imagination in the Subhatu’l-Ahbar 63
7. Narratives of Conquest and Genealogies of Custody among the Sacred Families of Central Asia: Manuscript Charters of Ancestral Islamization and Hereditary Privilege 97
8. East Asia
9. Distinguishing Pearls from Fish Eyes: The Branch Lineage Genealogies of the Descendants of Confucius 123
10. Chinese Genealogies and Tables of Generations: A Few Examples from Huizhou 147
11. Copying Is Editing: Handwritten Copies of Printed Genealogies in Late Imperial China, 1450–1900 195
12. Genealogical Diagrams in Chan/Zen Buddhism: Sources, Production, and Functions 219
13. Europe and Americas
14. The Fabrication of Lineage: Genealogical Manuscripts and the Administration of the Spanish Empire (Fifteenth–Eighteenth Century) 269
15. Data Organisation in two Bourgeois Genealogies from Eighteenthand Nineteenth-century Basel 299
16. Contributors 327
17. Indices 329