An afterlife for the Khan : Muslims, Buddhists, and sacred kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia / Jonathan Z. Brack
In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators, Buddhist monks, and Christian clergy all...
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Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xv, 196 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Indian prophet or father of Arabian Paganism? : the Buddha and the Buddhists in the History of India
- Perfect souls, imperfect bodies : refuting reincarnation at the Mongol court
- Converting fortune : from Buddhist Cakravartins to lords of auspicious conjunction
- King of Kalam : Öljeitü's theological domestication
- From ancestor worship to shrine-centered kingship : Ilkhanid confessional politics and the debate over shrine visitation
- Epilogue : kingship and the court debate after the Mongols.