Format:
Online-Ressource (678 p)
ISBN:
9789004243408
Series Statement:
Islamic History and Civilization Ser.
Content:
This volume offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake
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Description based upon print version of record
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Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on transliterations and dates; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Culture and Commerce in the Mongol World Empire; Cultural Transmission and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: Notes from the Biographical Dictionary of lbn al-Fuwatī; Diplomatic Missions and Gifts Exchanged by Mamluks and Ilkhans; Jochid Luxury Metalwork: Issues of Genesis and Development; The Maritime Trade of Kish During the MongolPeriod; Ilkhanid Rule and ItsContributions to Iranian Political Culture
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Lifestyles at the Courts of the Ruling EliteAvraga Site: The 'Great Ordū' of GenghisKhan; The Ilkhanid Palace at Takht-i Sulayman: Excavation Results; Hülegü Moves West: High Living and Heartbreak on the Road to Baghdad; The Keshig in Iran: The Survival of the Royal Mongol Household; The Arts of the Book in Ilkhanid Iran; Calligraphers, Illuminators, and Painters in the Ilkhanid Scriptorium; Erudition Exalted: The Double Frontispiece to the Epistles of the Sincere Brethren; In the Beginning: Frontispieces and Front Matter in Ilkhanid and Injuid Manuscripts
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Patronage of the Arts of the Book under the Injuids of ShirazThoughts on a Shāhnāma Legacy of the Fourteenth Century: Four Īnjū Manuscripts and the Great Mongol Shāhnāma; The Arts and Artistic Interchange; Paper: The Transformative Medium in Ilkhanid Art; Chinese Motifs in Thirteenth-Century Armenian Art: The Mongol Connection; Pottery under the Mongols; Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture; State and Religion in Ilkhanid Iran; Horoscopes and Planetary Theory: Ilkhanid Patronage of Astronomers
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Reflections on a 'Double Rapprochement': Conversion to Islam among the Mongol Elite during the Early IlkhanateReligious Diversity under Ilkhanid Rule c. 1300 as Reflected in the Freer Bal'amī; The Mongol Legacy of PersianFarmāns; Concluding Remarks; The Mongol Empire in World History; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Color plates; Black and white figures; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789047418573
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004243408
Additional Edition:
Print version Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan
Language:
English
Keywords:
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