Timor Rit - The Connate Experiment of Hybrid Legitimation

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Timor rit combined various legitimacy models, chingasid, persianate, islamic and sufi messianism. He was building on the connate experiment of hybrid legitimation of sovereignty. The astrological story is what kind of ties all of it together,. It's cutting across different understandings of empire, kingship, sovereignty.

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