Making Mongol History : : Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh / / Stefan Kamola.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Kamola, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

Explores Rashid al-Din’s impact on seven centuries of historical writingA narrative of early Ilkhanid history accessible to students and useful to scholarsA new approach to the biography of one of the most influential figures in medieval Islamic historyIncludes appendices describing the structure, sources and illustrative programs of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh and cataloguing all known manuscripts of the workShows the relationship between early modern Persian and modern European structures of knowledge about the Mongol worldThis book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It begins with an overview of administrative history and historiography in the early Ilkhanate, culminating with Rashid al-Din’s Blessed History of Ghazan, the indispensable source for Mongol and Ilkhanid history. Later chapters lay out the results of the most comprehensive study to date of the manuscripts of Rashid al-Din’s historical writing. The complicated relationship between Rashid al-Din’s historical and theological writings is also explored, as well as his appropriation of the work of his contemporary historian, `Abd Allah Qashani.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables, Figures and Maps -- Preface -- 1. Mongols in a Muslim World, 1218–1280 -- 2. The Likely Course of an Unlikely Life, 1248–1302 -- 3. Mongol Dynastic History, 1302–1304 -- 4. New Projects of Faith and Power, 1304–1312 -- 5. Remaking Mongol History, 1307–1313 -- 6. Creating the Image of Rashid al-Din, 1312–1335 -- Epilogue: Rashid al-Din at the Court of Shahrokh -- Appendix A. The Collected Histories and its Illustrations -- Appendix B. A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Collected Histories -- Bibliography -- Index