The Mongol Empire and its Legacy /

The Mongol Empire and its Legacy /

The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, pr...

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Other Authors: Amitai-Preiss, Reuven (Editor), Morgan (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1999.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Islamic History and Civilization ; 24.

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Mongols > History.

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Call Number: DS19

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Maps and Figure
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes on Dates and Transliterations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Early History of the Mongol Empire
  • 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-c. 1290, Peter Jackson
  • The Mongols in the Middle East
  • Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern Geography: Qīshlāqs and Tümens, John Masson Smith, Jr.
  • Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the Mamluks, Reuven Amitai-Preiss
  • The Īlkhān Öljeitü's Conquest of Gīlān (1307): Rumour and Reality, Charles Melville
  • The Āthār wa ahyāʾ of Rashīd al-Dīn Fadl Allāh Hamadānī and His Contribution as an Agronomist, Arboriculturist and Horticulturist, A.K.S. Lambton
  • The Letters of Rashīd al-Dīn: Īlkhānid Fact or Timurid Fiction? A.H. Morton
  • The Mongols in China and the Far East
  • Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food and Foodways, Paul D. Buell
  • Notes on Shamans, Fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang Practitioners and Civil Administration in Yüan China, Elizabeth Endicott-West
  • Qubilai Qaʾan and ʾPhags-pa bLa-ma, Sh. Bira
  • Qubilai Qaʾan and the Historians: Some Remarks on the Position of the Great Khan in Pre-modern Chinese Historiography, T.H. Barrett
  • The Legacy of the Mongol Empire
  • China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire, Hidehiro Okada
  • 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
  • Index.