The Mongol empire & its legacy
By: Reuven Amitai-Preiss & David O. Morgan, (eds.).
Contributors: Amitai-Preiss, Reuven, 1955-; Morgan, David, 1945-
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Mongols -- History.
Other titles: Mongol empire and its legacy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The papers published in this volume were based on some of those given at a conference which took place in 21-23 March 1991 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Maps and Figurevii; title: List of Abbreviationsix; title: Notes on Dates and Transliterationsxi; title: List of Contributorsxiii; title: Introduction1; title: Early History of the Mongol Empire; title: What the Partridge Told the Eagle: A Neglected Arabic; title: Source on Chinggis Khan and the Early History of the; title: Mongols5; title: ROBERT G. IRWIN; title: From Ulus to Khanate: The Making of the Mongol States,; title: c. 1220-c. 129012; title: PETER JACKSON; title: The Mongols in the Middle East; title: Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern Geography:; title: Qishlaqs and Tumens39; title: JOHN MASSON SMITH, JR.; title: Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the; title: Mamluks57; title: REUVEN AMITAI-PREISS; title: IlThe Ilkhan Oljeitii's Conquest of Gilan (1307): Rumour and; title: Reality73; title: CHARLES MELVILLE; title: 'iIe Athdr wa ahyd' of Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani; title: and His Contribution as an Agronomist, Arboriculturist; title: and Horticulturalist126; title: A.K.S. LAMBTON; title: c Letters of Rashid al-Din: Ilkhanid Fact or Timurid; title: :Fiaction?155; title: A.H. MORTON; title: The Mongols in China and the Far East; title: Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food; title: and Foodways . 200; title: PAUL D. BUELL; title: Notes on Shamans, Fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang Practitioners; title: and Civil Administration in Yuan China224; title: ELIZABETH ENDICOTT-WEST; title: Qubilai Qa'an and 'Phags-pa bLa-ma240; title: SH. BIRA; title: Qubilai Qa'an and the Historians: Some Remarks on the; title: Position of the Great Khan in Pre-modern Chinese; title: H istoriography250; title: T.H. BARRETT; title: The Legacy of the Mongol Empire; title: China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire260; title: HIDEHIRO OKADA; title: Some Comments on the Consequences of the Decline of; title: the Mongol Empire on the Social Development of the; title: M ongols273; title: UDO B. BARKMANN; title: How Mongol were the Early Ottomans?282; title: RUDI PAUL LINDNER; title: The Early History of the Moghul Nomads: The Legacy of; title: the Chaghatai Khanate290; title: HODONG KIM; title: The Legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk); title: Tribes in Relation to the Chinggisid Principle319; title: JUNKO MIYAWAKI; title: The Vicissitudes of Mongolian Historiography in the; title: Twentieth Century332; title: THOMAS N. HAINING; title: Index347.