The Mongols in the Islamic lands : studies in the history of the Ilkhanate /

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Author / Creator:Amitai, Reuven.
Imprint:Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, c2007.
Description:1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Variorum collected studies series ; CS873
Collected studies ; CS873.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6491509
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ISBN:9780754659143 (alk. paper)
0754659143 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Institutions and Historiography
  • Evidence for the early use of the title ilkhan among the Mongols
  • Turco-Mongolian nomads and the iqta` system in the Islamic Middle East (ca.1000-1400 AD)
  • New material from the Mamluk sources for the biography of Rashid al-Din
  • Al-Nuwayri as a historian of the Mongols
  • Part 2. The Conversion of the Mongols to Islam
  • The conversion of Tegüder Ilkhan to Islam
  • Ghazan, Islam and Mongol tradition: a view from the Mamluk Sultanate
  • Sufis and shamans: some remarks on the Islamization of the Mongols in the Ilkhanate
  • Part 3. The War Against the Mamluks
  • Mongol raids into Palestine (A.D. 1260 and 1300)
  • `Ayn Jalut revisited
  • An exchange of letters in Arabic between Abaya Ilkhan and Sultan Baybars (A.H. 667 / A.D. 1268-9)
  • Edward of England and Abagha Ilkhan: a reexamination of a failed attempt at Mongol-Frankish cooperation
  • Mongol imperial ideology and the Ilkhanid war against the Mamluks
  • Mamluk perceptions of the Mongol-Frankish rapprochement
  • Northern Syria between the Mongols and the Mamluks: political boundary, military frontier and ethnic affinities
  • Whither the Ilkhanid army? Ghazan's first campaign into Syria (1299-1300)
  • The resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk war
  • Addenda and corrigenda
  • Index