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 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 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 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; | 
