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State Failure and Successful Leadership in Medieval India
Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-04-23 , DOI: 10.1177/02576430211001961
Vasileios Syros 1
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State failure has been an enduring topic in the history of political thought. This article will revisit modern debates on the characteristics of state failure and the factors conducive to successful leadership by focusing on political ideas that evolved in fourteenth-century India. I will discuss two works with the same title, i.e., Tārīkh-i Fīrūz Shāhī (The History of Fīrūz Shāh) of the distinguished historians of the Delhi Sultanate period Ziyā’ al-Dīn Baranī (ca. 1285–1357) and Shams Sirāj ‘Afīf (d. 1399) about Sultans Muḥammad b. Tughluq and (his successor) Fīrūz Shāh as instantiations of state failure and good governance, respectively. The deployment of the concept of state failure has often been construed as an effort to impose a political straitjacket; the examination of authors like Baranī and ‘Afīf demonstrates the value of reflecting on lessons from history and exploring how societies in the past evolved their own patterns of thinking about effective or failed leadership.



中文翻译:

印度中世纪国家的失败与成功的领导

国家失败一直是政治思想史上永恒的话题。本文将通过关注在14世纪印度发展起来的政治思想,重新审视关于国家失败特征和有助于成功领导的因素的现代辩论。我将讨论两个标题相同的作品,即《Tārīkh-iFūrūzShāhī》FīrūzShāh的历史》)是德里苏丹国时期的杰出历史学家Ziyā'al-DīnBaranī(约1285年至1357年)和ShamsSirāj'Afīf(卒于1399年)有关苏丹穆罕默德b的历史。Tughluq和他的继任者FīrūzShāh分别是国家失败和善政的典范。国家失败概念的部署通常被认为是施加政治束缚的一种努力。对巴拉尼(Baranī)和阿夫(Afīf)等作家的考察表明了反思历史教训以及探索过去的社会如何发展自己对有效或失败领导的思维方式的价值。

更新日期:2021-04-23
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