| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Series |
Iran studies ; volume 11 |
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Iran studies ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
Part I. The memoria of the Mongols in historical and literary sources -- Mythico-legendary figures and history between east and west -- The Mongols and the legend of Prester John -- The historiographical works of Barhebraus on the Mongol period -- The historical Taqwim in Muslim east -- Part II. Shamanism and Islam -- Shamanism and Islam in Central Asia: two antinomic religious universes? -- The transformation of a myth of origins, Genghis Khan and Timur -- Mongol law versus Islamic law: myth and reality -- Part III. Conquering the world protected by the Tenggeri -- From 'non-negotiation' to an abortive alliance: thoughts on the diplomatic exchanges between the Mongols and the Latin west -- Hulegu's letters to the last Ayyubid ruler of Syria: the construction of a model -- Part IV. Mamluks and Ilkhans: the quest of legitimacy -- Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch: Baybars and the Ilkhans -- The written and the spoken word: Baybars and the Caliphal investiture ceremonies in Cairo -- Ghazan Khan's invasion of Syria: polemics on his conversion to Islam and the Christian troops in his army -- A religious response to Ghazan Khan's invasions of Syria: the three "anti-Mongol" fatwas of Ibn Taymiyya -- Epilogue: The Mongol empire after Genghis Khan |
| Summary |
In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 7, 2015) |
| SUBJECT |
Ilchane. gnd |
| Subject |
Mongols -- History -- To 1500
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Ethnohistory -- Asia
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Ethnohistory
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Mongols
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Mongolen
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Schamanismus
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Islamisierung
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Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004280649 |
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9004280642 |
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9004277498 |
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9789004277496 |
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