The Mongol empire & its legacy /
The Mongol empire & its legacy /
Mongol empire and its legacy
Reuven Amitai-Preiss & David O. Morgan, (eds.).
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2000?]
- xiv, 361 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
"The papers published in this volume were based on some of those given at a conference which took place in 21-23 March 1991 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London"--Introd.
a Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: List of Maps and Figurevii -- List of Abbreviationsix -- Notes on Dates and Transliterationsxi -- List of Contributorsxiii -- Introduction1 -- 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 -- Mongols5 -- ROBERT G. IRWIN -- From Ulus to Khanate: The Making of the Mongol States, -- c. 1220-c. 129012 -- PETER JACKSON -- The Mongols in the Middle East -- Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern Geography: -- Qishlaqs and Tumens39 -- JOHN MASSON SMITH, JR. -- Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the -- Mamluks57 -- REUVEN AMITAI-PREISS -- IlThe Ilkhan Oljeitii’s Conquest of Gilan (1307): Rumour and -- Reality73 -- CHARLES MELVILLE -- ’iIe Athdr wa ahyd’ of Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani -- and His Contribution as an Agronomist, Arboriculturist -- and Horticulturalist126 -- A.K.S. LAMBTON -- c Letters of Rashid al-Din: Ilkhanid Fact or Timurid -- :Fiaction?155 -- A.H. MORTON -- The Mongols in China and the Far East -- Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food -- and Foodways . 200 -- PAUL D. BUELL -- Notes on Shamans, Fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang Practitioners -- and Civil Administration in Yuan China224 -- ELIZABETH ENDICOTT-WEST -- Qubilai Qa’an and ’Phags-pa bLa-ma240 -- SH. BIRA -- Qubilai Qa’an and the Historians: Some Remarks on the -- Position of the Great Khan in Pre-modern Chinese -- H istoriography250 -- T.H. BARRETT -- The Legacy of the Mongol Empire -- China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire260 -- HIDEHIRO OKADA -- Some Comments on the Consequences of the Decline of -- the Mongol Empire on the Social Development of the -- M ongols273 -- UDO B. BARKMANN -- How Mongol were the Early Ottomans?282 -- RUDI PAUL LINDNER -- The Early History of the Moghul Nomads: The Legacy of -- the Chaghatai Khanate290 -- HODONG KIM -- The Legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk) -- Tribes in Relation to the Chinggisid Principle319 -- JUNKO MIYAWAKI -- The Vicissitudes of Mongolian Historiography in the -- Twentieth Century332 -- THOMAS N. HAINING -- Index347.
Mongols -- History.
"The papers published in this volume were based on some of those given at a conference which took place in 21-23 March 1991 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London"--Introd.
a Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: List of Maps and Figurevii -- List of Abbreviationsix -- Notes on Dates and Transliterationsxi -- List of Contributorsxiii -- Introduction1 -- 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 -- Mongols5 -- ROBERT G. IRWIN -- From Ulus to Khanate: The Making of the Mongol States, -- c. 1220-c. 129012 -- PETER JACKSON -- The Mongols in the Middle East -- Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern Geography: -- Qishlaqs and Tumens39 -- JOHN MASSON SMITH, JR. -- Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the -- Mamluks57 -- REUVEN AMITAI-PREISS -- IlThe Ilkhan Oljeitii’s Conquest of Gilan (1307): Rumour and -- Reality73 -- CHARLES MELVILLE -- ’iIe Athdr wa ahyd’ of Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani -- and His Contribution as an Agronomist, Arboriculturist -- and Horticulturalist126 -- A.K.S. LAMBTON -- c Letters of Rashid al-Din: Ilkhanid Fact or Timurid -- :Fiaction?155 -- A.H. MORTON -- The Mongols in China and the Far East -- Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food -- and Foodways . 200 -- PAUL D. BUELL -- Notes on Shamans, Fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang Practitioners -- and Civil Administration in Yuan China224 -- ELIZABETH ENDICOTT-WEST -- Qubilai Qa’an and ’Phags-pa bLa-ma240 -- SH. BIRA -- Qubilai Qa’an and the Historians: Some Remarks on the -- Position of the Great Khan in Pre-modern Chinese -- H istoriography250 -- T.H. BARRETT -- The Legacy of the Mongol Empire -- China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire260 -- HIDEHIRO OKADA -- Some Comments on the Consequences of the Decline of -- the Mongol Empire on the Social Development of the -- M ongols273 -- UDO B. BARKMANN -- How Mongol were the Early Ottomans?282 -- RUDI PAUL LINDNER -- The Early History of the Moghul Nomads: The Legacy of -- the Chaghatai Khanate290 -- HODONG KIM -- The Legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk) -- Tribes in Relation to the Chinggisid Principle319 -- JUNKO MIYAWAKI -- The Vicissitudes of Mongolian Historiography in the -- Twentieth Century332 -- THOMAS N. HAINING -- Index347.
Mongols -- History.