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The Mongols' Middle East : continuity and transformation in Ilkhanid Iran /

"The Mongols' Middle East : Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhan...

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Other Authors: De Nicola, Bruno (Editor), Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter), 1951- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Subjects:
Ilkhanid dynasty.
Mongols > Iran > History > To 1500.
Social change > Iran > History > To 1500.
Iran > History > 1256-1500.
Iran > Politics and government.
Iran > Social conditions.
Iran > Relations.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789004314726
9004314725
ISSN:0929-2403 ;
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Charles Melville and Bruno De Nicola
  • Part 1. The Mongol conquest of the Middle East
  • Mongol conquest strategy in the Middle East / Timothy May
  • Continuity and change in the Mongol army of the Ilkhanate / Reuven Amitai
  • Part 2. Internal actors : politics, economy and religion
  • Shams al-Din Juvaynii, the vizier and patron : mediation between ruler and ruled in the Ilkhanate / Esther Ravalde
  • The economic role of Mongol women : continuity and transformation from Mongolia to Iran / Bruno De Nicola
  • Faith and the law : religious beliefs and the death penalty in the Ilkhanate / Florence Hodous
  • Part 3. Culture and the arts
  • Music in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad : Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanid circle of musicians / Michal Biran
  • Historical epic as Mongol propaganda? : Juvayni's motifs and motives / Judith Kolbas
  • From the Mongols to the Timurids : refinement and attrition in Persian painting / Karin Ruhrdanz
  • Part 4. Relationships with neighbouring actors
  • Champions of the Persian language : the Mongols or the Turks? / Aptin Khanbaghi
  • Darughachi in Armenia / Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog
  • The Phoenix Mosque / George Lane
  • Mamluk and Mongol peripheral politics : asserting sovereignty in the Middle East's "Kurdish Zone" (1260-1330) / Boris James
  • Epilogue: The end of the Ilkhanate and after : observations on the collapse of the Mongol world empire / Charles Melville.

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