The Jalayirids
Subtitle: dynastic state formation in the Mongol Middle East
By: Patrick Wing
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781474402255; 9781474426374
Subjects: Jalāyirids; History
Description: The period of Middle Eastern history between the collapse of the Mongol Ilkhanate in 1335 and the rise if Timur (Tamerland) at the end of the fourteenth century is commonly seen as a tumultuous time of political breakdown and disorder. This book helps to make sense of this confusing period by tracing the origins, history and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty, a family that succeeded the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran and Iraq in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries and claimed to be the rightful heirs of the Chinggisid Mongols. the story of how the Jalayirids came to power is illustrative of the political dynamics that shaped much of the Mongol and post-Mongol period in the Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations for primary and secondary source texts; title: Introduction and sources for the history of the Jalayirids; title: tribes and the Chinggisid Empire; title: The Jalayirs and the Early Ilkhanate; title: From tribal Amirs to royal in-laws; title: Crisis and transition (1335-56); title: Shaykh Uvays and the Jalayirid dynasty; title: Dynastic ideology during the reign of Shaykh Uvays; title: Challenges to the Jalayirid Order; title: conclusions and the legacy of the Jalayirids; title: maps and genealogical chart; title: Bibliography; title: Index.