The Mongols and the Islamic World : From Conquest to Conversion.
The Mongols and the Islamic World :
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9780300227284 (electronic bk.)
9780300125337
9780300125337
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PLATES AND MAPS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 MEDIEVAL AUTHORS ON THE MONGOLS -- Mongolian and other Far Eastern material -- Muslim observers contemporary with the early Mongol invasions: Ibn al-Athīr, Nasawī, Jūzjānī and others -- Muslim historians writing under the pagan Ilkhans: Juwaynī and others -- Muslim writers active in Iran following the conversion of the Ilkhans -- Local histories from the Ilkhanid territories -- Non-narrative sources from the Ilkhanate -- Jochid, Chaghadayid and Timurid sources -- Authors writing after c. 1265 in the dominions of the Mongols' enemies -- Historians writing in the Ilkhanid realm but outside the Sunnī Islamic tradition -- Christian European observers -- 2 THE ISLAMIC WORLD AND INNER ASIAN PEOPLES DOWN TO THE MONGOL INVASION -- Early contacts with the Inner Asian steppe -- The entry of the steppe peoples into the Dar al-Islam -- The image of the Turk in Muslim literature -- Upheavals in the western steppes: the advent of the Qipchaq-Qangli -- The Qara-Khitai and their Muslim neighbours -- The Gür-khans and their Muslim subjects -- The Qipchaq-Qangli and the Khwārazmshāhs -- The rise of the Mongols in the eastern steppes -- Cultural dissonances -- 3 THE MONGOL WESTWARD ADVANCE (1219-53) -- The grounds for the conflict with the Khwārazmshāh -- The Mongol campaigns in the eastern Islamic lands, 616-21/1219-2436 -- Mongol operations in Western Asia during the period 1229-52 -- The Mongol art of war94 -- Muslim support for the Mongol invaders -- The 'Great Mongol People' -- 4 APPORTIONING AND GOVERNING AN EMPIRE (C. 1221-C. 1260) -- The character of the empire -- The succession to Chinggis Khan -- The disputed successions of 1241-6 and 1248-51 -- Appanages and shared authority.
The role of elite Mongol women -- The administrative structure of the empire -- Taxation128 -- Mongol law -- The distribution of authority: an overview -- Möngke and centralization -- Jochid power in Western Asia -- Imperial unity -- 5 HÜLEGÜ'S CAMPAIGNS AND IMPERIAL FRAGMENTATION (1253-62) -- Hülegü's campaigns in south- west Asia1 -- The predicaments of Hülegü's opponents -- The question of armaments -- The terms of Hülegü's commission -- The break with the Jochids and the creation of the Ilkhanate -- The reconstitution of the ulus of Chaghadai -- The end of the unitary empire -- 6 DEVASTATION, DEPOPULATION AND REVIVAL IN THE AGE OF CONQUEST -- The verdict of the sources -- The incidence of massacre by Chinggis Khan's armies -- The conduct of war under Ögödei and Güyüg -- General patterns down to 1254 -- Other contributors to the destruction -- The deployment of violence by Hülegü's forces (1255-62) -- The problem of contemporary figures136 -- After the slaughter: secondary depopulation -- Economic malaise and cultural decline -- Efforts at reconstruction -- 7 THE ERA OF INTER-MONGOL WARFARE -- The 'four uluses': construct and reality -- The qaghan and Mongol unity -- The 'Middle Empire' -- Inter-Mongol conflicts and the imperial enterprise -- Jochid ambitions and Ilkhanid territory -- The borderlands between the Central Asian Mongols and the Yuan -- The labile frontiers in eastern Iran -- Transoxiana, Turkestan and Khwārazm -- The impact of internecine conflict -- Nomadic khans, their military and their sedentary subjects -- 8 PAX MONGOLICA AND A TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAFFIC -- The Pax: image, reality and the Silk Roads -- Trade in Mongol Asia: commodities -- The routes -- Mongol khans and the patronage of commercial activity -- Overland trade and travel in the era of the successor-states: obstacles and risks -- Seaborne trade during the Mongol epoch.
The movement of skilled personnel -- Cultural brokers: Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, Rashīd al-Dīn and Bolod Chingsang125 -- The expansion of geographical horizons -- The visual arts -- The Chinggisids' own role -- The limits of cultural diffusion -- 9 MEDIATED SOVEREIGNTY -- The Qipchaq khanate and Central Asia -- The subject principalities in the Ilkhanid lands -- New dynasties -- Iran: north and south -- The burdens and benefits of vassalage57 -- Chinggisid intermarriage with the subject dynasties104 -- An enhanced role for Muslim princesses? -- Rebellion, intervention and restraint -- The spread of direct Ilkhanid authority -- 10 UNBELIEVING MONARCHS AND THEIR SERVANTS -- The Ilkhans (1258-97) and their kinsfolk5 -- Muslim ministers at the centre and in the provinces -- The Ilkhans, their Muslim ministers and their historians -- The civil and the military: Mongol viceroy (nā'ib) and Tājīk wazir -- The growth of a homogeneous ruling elite? -- The perils of high office -- 11 THE RULE OF THE INFIDEL -- Alien religious traditions and Mongol pluralism -- Uncanonical taxation -- The clash between Islamic norms and steppe customary law -- The competition for office and influence: Sunnī Muslims, Shī‛īs and dhimmis -- The equitable treatment of all faiths -- The perceived threat to Islam under the new dispensation -- The rule of the infidel: legitimation, acceptance and appropriation -- 12 THE ONSET OF ISLAMIZATION -- Defining conversion to Islam -- The choice of Islam -- Mongol tradition and the rhetoric of proselytism -- Precedence in conversion: Mongol rulers or their Mongol subjects? -- Appealing to Muslims beyond the borders -- The agents of conversion -- Pluralism and false reports of conversion -- 13 THE ONSET OF ISLAMIZATION -- The Jochids: From Berke to Özbeg -- The Chaghadayids: from Tarmashirin to Tughluq Temür -- Yasa versus Shari‛a.
The Ilkhanate: from Tegüder Aḥmad to Öljeitü -- Muslim Ilkhans, the Buddhists and the People of the Book -- Rashīd al-Dīn, Islam and the Mongols -- The Islam of Ghazan, his generals and his minister: the view from outside -- EPILOGUE -- Legitimation by Chinggisid descent -- Allegiance to Mongol norms and institutions -- Turkicization -- The exodus of Muslims from the Mongol world -- The spread of Islam across Eurasia -- The movement of peoples and the emergence of new ethnicities -- The integration of Eurasia within a single disease zone: the Black Death -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Technical Terms -- APPENDIX 2 Genealogical Tables and Lists of Rulers -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
The role of elite Mongol women -- The administrative structure of the empire -- Taxation128 -- Mongol law -- The distribution of authority: an overview -- Möngke and centralization -- Jochid power in Western Asia -- Imperial unity -- 5 HÜLEGÜ'S CAMPAIGNS AND IMPERIAL FRAGMENTATION (1253-62) -- Hülegü's campaigns in south- west Asia1 -- The predicaments of Hülegü's opponents -- The question of armaments -- The terms of Hülegü's commission -- The break with the Jochids and the creation of the Ilkhanate -- The reconstitution of the ulus of Chaghadai -- The end of the unitary empire -- 6 DEVASTATION, DEPOPULATION AND REVIVAL IN THE AGE OF CONQUEST -- The verdict of the sources -- The incidence of massacre by Chinggis Khan's armies -- The conduct of war under Ögödei and Güyüg -- General patterns down to 1254 -- Other contributors to the destruction -- The deployment of violence by Hülegü's forces (1255-62) -- The problem of contemporary figures136 -- After the slaughter: secondary depopulation -- Economic malaise and cultural decline -- Efforts at reconstruction -- 7 THE ERA OF INTER-MONGOL WARFARE -- The 'four uluses': construct and reality -- The qaghan and Mongol unity -- The 'Middle Empire' -- Inter-Mongol conflicts and the imperial enterprise -- Jochid ambitions and Ilkhanid territory -- The borderlands between the Central Asian Mongols and the Yuan -- The labile frontiers in eastern Iran -- Transoxiana, Turkestan and Khwārazm -- The impact of internecine conflict -- Nomadic khans, their military and their sedentary subjects -- 8 PAX MONGOLICA AND A TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAFFIC -- The Pax: image, reality and the Silk Roads -- Trade in Mongol Asia: commodities -- The routes -- Mongol khans and the patronage of commercial activity -- Overland trade and travel in the era of the successor-states: obstacles and risks -- Seaborne trade during the Mongol epoch.
The movement of skilled personnel -- Cultural brokers: Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, Rashīd al-Dīn and Bolod Chingsang125 -- The expansion of geographical horizons -- The visual arts -- The Chinggisids' own role -- The limits of cultural diffusion -- 9 MEDIATED SOVEREIGNTY -- The Qipchaq khanate and Central Asia -- The subject principalities in the Ilkhanid lands -- New dynasties -- Iran: north and south -- The burdens and benefits of vassalage57 -- Chinggisid intermarriage with the subject dynasties104 -- An enhanced role for Muslim princesses? -- Rebellion, intervention and restraint -- The spread of direct Ilkhanid authority -- 10 UNBELIEVING MONARCHS AND THEIR SERVANTS -- The Ilkhans (1258-97) and their kinsfolk5 -- Muslim ministers at the centre and in the provinces -- The Ilkhans, their Muslim ministers and their historians -- The civil and the military: Mongol viceroy (nā'ib) and Tājīk wazir -- The growth of a homogeneous ruling elite? -- The perils of high office -- 11 THE RULE OF THE INFIDEL -- Alien religious traditions and Mongol pluralism -- Uncanonical taxation -- The clash between Islamic norms and steppe customary law -- The competition for office and influence: Sunnī Muslims, Shī‛īs and dhimmis -- The equitable treatment of all faiths -- The perceived threat to Islam under the new dispensation -- The rule of the infidel: legitimation, acceptance and appropriation -- 12 THE ONSET OF ISLAMIZATION -- Defining conversion to Islam -- The choice of Islam -- Mongol tradition and the rhetoric of proselytism -- Precedence in conversion: Mongol rulers or their Mongol subjects? -- Appealing to Muslims beyond the borders -- The agents of conversion -- Pluralism and false reports of conversion -- 13 THE ONSET OF ISLAMIZATION -- The Jochids: From Berke to Özbeg -- The Chaghadayids: from Tarmashirin to Tughluq Temür -- Yasa versus Shari‛a.
The Ilkhanate: from Tegüder Aḥmad to Öljeitü -- Muslim Ilkhans, the Buddhists and the People of the Book -- Rashīd al-Dīn, Islam and the Mongols -- The Islam of Ghazan, his generals and his minister: the view from outside -- EPILOGUE -- Legitimation by Chinggisid descent -- Allegiance to Mongol norms and institutions -- Turkicization -- The exodus of Muslims from the Mongol world -- The spread of Islam across Eurasia -- The movement of peoples and the emergence of new ethnicities -- The integration of Eurasia within a single disease zone: the Black Death -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Technical Terms -- APPENDIX 2 Genealogical Tables and Lists of Rulers -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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