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alusur-13340	Melvin-Koushki, Matthew	Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism in Early Modern Persianate Imperial Cultures: ʿAlī versus Jesus, with Hermes Presiding : A Harranian Essay in Astro-Decoloniality	2025	50	.pdf	application/pdf	24299	1071	50	Upon ʿAlī ʿĀdilshāh’s death, Chānd Bībī (d. 1600), his wife, took power, and her military exploits against the Mughals earned her fame as Queen of the Deccan to this day.129 As should now be obvious, their royal names were designed to be read together as a simple Islam-in-India imperial riddle: the marriage of ʿAlī, King of the Balance (Arabic-Persian), to Chānd, God Moon (Sanskrit-Persian), makes a legendary power couple in Hellenic and Vedic terms; that Chānd was physically Warrior Queen and female World-Changer too only doubled that Twaining synergy. As astro-decolonial remedy, I propose Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism as a primary binary pair whose creative tension helped shape human cultures generally and Islamicate ones specifically, and early modern Persianate imperial cultures above all: for they saw the apotheosis of the peculiarly Islamic embrace of Harranian-Hermetic astral magic as the preferred vehicle of Neoplatonic philosophical-theurgic practice, rejecting the weird Greek insistence on Moon as nonimperial female only in favor of the Harranian devotion to male Moon as Cosmic King and brother to male-female Hermes.	cache/alusur-13340.pdf	txt/alusur-13340.txt