Reframing the Mongols in 1260 : the Armenians, the Mongols and the Magi [PDF]
The irruption of the Mongols led to profound changes in the political, cultural and confessional climate of the thirteenth-century Near East. While many did not survive the initial onslaught and the years of turmoil that followed, and rulers that opposed
Stewart, Angus
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The Reinvention of Padishah-i Islam in the Visual Representations of Ghazan Khan: (English Version) [PDF]
This article discusses how the visualization of Mahmud Ghazan, the sixth Ilkhanid ruler, was employed to construct and propagate his image as the Padishah-i Islam (King of Islam), thus justifying him both as king of Iranshahr (land of Iran) and the ...
Latifkar, Azade
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A Preliminary Report of Excavations at Aveh Plain, Islamic Period [PDF]
Aveh archaeological site, which has prepared the necessary background for the archaeological studiesafter having been identified and registered, is located in Saveh Plain, and it is one of the less-known sitesin the Iranian Central Plateau.
Arash Lashkari +2 more
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The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü and Abaqa: Mongol overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? [PDF]
Il s'agit de l'avant dernière épreuve avant publicationInternational audienceThis paper deals with the Great Khans and Ilkhans' letters, and with the question of their authenticity and the intervention of the Christians of the Bilād al-Shām.
Aigle, Denise
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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The relations between the states of the Mamluks and the Golden Horde aimed at common interests were shaped and developed around the discourse of the common enemy.
Kazım Uzun
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Pir Sultan Abdal : Encounters with persona in Alevi lyric song [PDF]
In his 1997 Nobel Prize lecture, Contra jogulatores obliquentes, Italian dramatist Dario Fo makes an oblique reference to a famous medieval Ottoman "jester."1 The "jester" is not mentioned by name but rather in the context of the murder of 35 artists and
Koerbin, Paul
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A Preliminary Study of Kushk-i Sa’idabad-i Tabriz: The Ilkhanid Midway Settlement in Northwest of Iran [PDF]
Periodic travel and movement between various summer and winter residences were central practices of the Ilkhanid court, as evidenced by numerous accounts in the chronicles from this era and throughout the reign of all Ilkhanids.
Shahin Garakani Dashteh +1 more
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Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]
International audienceThis paper points out the break of the traditionnal administrative patterns from dure Gret' Khans period to the fall of the Persian Ilkhanate in 1355. Previously, financial and secretarial offices had been handed down, to generation,
Aigle, Denise
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Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century [PDF]
Within the context of a research project that seeks to explore new concepts and, possibly, arrive at more productive paradigms, it is interesting to observe the degree to which the study of the transfer of artefacts between the Islamic Middle East and ...
Contadini, Anna
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