Beyond the Legacy of Genghis KhanLinda Komaroff 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. |
Contents
Diplomatic Missions and Gifts Exchanged by Mamluks | 30 |
Issues of Genesis | 43 |
Ilkhanid Rule and Its Contributions to Iranian Political | 68 |
The Great Ordu of Genghis Khan | 83 |
High Living and Heartbreak on | 111 |
The Survival of the Royal Mongol | 135 |
Calligraphers Illuminators and Painters in the Ilkhanid | 167 |
The Double Frontispiece to the Epistles | 183 |
The Transformative Medium in Ilkhanid | 289 |
Pottery under the Mongols | 325 |
Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture | 346 |
Conversion | 369 |
Religious Diversity under Ilkhanid Rule c 1300 as Reflected | 390 |
The Mongol Legacy of Persian Farmāns | 407 |
The Mongol Empire in World History | 425 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 439 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abaqa Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad Alī Allsen amirs Arab architecture Arghun Armenian Baghdad Blair calligrapher China Chinese color copy cultural dated decoration depicted Dimna double frontispiece double-page dragon dynasty early enthroned Ettinghausen example figures folios fourteenth century Freer Gallery Geikhatu Genghis Khan Ghazan gold Golden Horde Ḥasan History Hormuz Huff Hülegü Ibid Ibn al-Fuwațī Ilkhanid Ilkhans illuminated illustrated Injuid inscription Iran Iranian Islamic Art Istanbul Juwaynī keshig Khan's Khātūn Kish Komaroff and Carboni later London luster Mamluk manuscript Maragha Melikian-Chirvani miniature Möngke Mongol Empire Mongol Shāhnāma Mongolia Mosque Mosul motifs Muḥammad Muḥammad ibn Museum of Art Muslim Naumann Nersessian Öljeitü painting Palace Museum Library panels period Persian phoenix Qur'ān Rashid al-Dīn royal ruler Sasanian Seljuk Shāhnāma shamsa Shaykh Shiraz Soudavar Studies Sufi sultan Tabriz Takht-i Sulayman Tehran thirteenth century tiles Topkapı tughra tümens University Press vizier wares Waṣṣāf Watson با