The Mongol empire and its legacy

Brill

1999

xiv, 361 p.

Islamic history and civilization ; vol. 24

978-90-04-11048-9

What the partridge told the eagle : a neglected Arabic source on Chinggis Khan and the early history of the Mongols / Robert G. Irwin -- From Ulus to Khanate : the making of the Mongol states, c.1220-c1290 / Peter Jackson -- Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern geography : Qīshlāqs and Tümens / John Masson Smith, Jr. -- Mongol imperial ideology and the Ilkahnid War against the Mamluks / Reuven Amitai-Preiss -- The Īlkhān Öljeitü's conquest of Gīlān (1307) : rumour and reality / Charles Melville -- The Āthār wa ahyāʼ of Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh Hamadānī and his contributions as an agronomist, arboriculturist and horticulturalist / A.K.S. Lambton -- The letters of Rashīd al-Dīn : Īlkhānid fact or Timurid fiction? / A.H. Morton -- Notes on shamans, fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang practitioners and civil administration in Yüan China / Elizabeth Endicott-West -- Qubilai Qaʼan and ʼPhags-pa bLa-ma / Sh. Bira -- Qubilai Qaʼan and the historians : some remarks on the position of the great Khan in pre-modern Chinese / T.H. Barrett -- China as a successor state to Mongol Empire / Hidehiro Okado -- Some comments on the consequences of the decline of the Mongol Empire on the social development of the Mongols / Udo B. Barkmann -- How Mongol were the early Ottomans? / Rudi Paul Lindner -- The early history of the Moghul nomads : the legacy of the Chaghatai Khanate / Hodong Kim -- The legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk) tribes in relation to the Chinggisid principle / Junko Miyawaki -- The vicissitudes of Mongolian historiography in the twentieth century / Thomas N. Haining.

The Mongol empire was founded early in the thirteenth century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The papers in this volume present new perspectives on the establishment of the Mongol empire, Mongol rule in the eastern Islamic world, Central Asia and China, and the legacy of this rule. The various authors approach these subjects from the view of political, military, social, cultural and intellectual history.

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