The Mongol Empire and its Legacy / / edited by Morgan, Reuven Amitai-Preiss.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization ; 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Amitai-Preiss, Reuven,; Morgan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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...

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.