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This study presents and intellectual- and literary-historically contextualizes a remarkable but as yet unpublished treatise by Ibn Turka (d.&amp;#x00A0;1432), foremost occult philosopher of Timurid Iran: the  Munāẓara-yi bazm u razm . As its title indicates, this ornate Persian work, written in 1426 in Herat for the Timurid prince-calligrapher Bāysunghur (d.&amp;#x00A0;1433), takes the form of a literary debate, a venerable Arabo-Persian genre that exploded in popularity in the post-Mongol period. Yet it triply transgresses the bounds of its genre, and doubly marries Arabic-Mamluk literary and imperial culture to Persian-Timurid. For here Ibn Turka recasts the  munāẓara  as philosophical romance and the philosophical romance as mirror for princes, imperializing the  razm u bazm  and sword vs. pen tropes within an expressly  lettrist  framework, making explicit the logic of the  coincidentia oppositorum  ( majmaʿ al-aḍdād ) long implicit in the genre in order to ideologically weaponize it. For the first time in the centuries-old Arabo-Persian  munāẓara  tradition, that is, wherein such debates were often rhetorically but never theoretically resolved, Ibn Turka marries multiple opposites  in a manner clearly meant to be instructive to his Timurid royal patron: he is to perform the role of Emperor Love ( sulṭān ʿishq ), transcendent of all political-legal dualities, avatar of the divine names the Manifest ( al-ẓāhir ) and the Occult ( al-bāṭin ). This lettrist mirror for Timurid princes is thus not simply unprecedented in Persian or indeed Arabic literature, a typical expression of the ornate literary panache and genre-hybridizing proclivities of Mamluk-Timurid-Ottoman scientists of letters, and index of the burgeoning of Ibn ʿArabian-Būnian lettrism in late Mamluk Cairo; it also serves as key to Timurid universalist imperial ideology itself in its formative phase&amp;#x00A0;– and consciously epitomizes the principle of  contradiction  driving Islamicate civilization as a whole.

Imperial Talismanic Love : Ibn Turka’s Debate of Feast and Fight (1426) as Philosophical Romance and Lettrist Mirror for Timurid Princes