Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]
This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
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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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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 Portrayal of the "Shaman’s" Role in Funeral Portraits of the Great Ilkhanid Shahnameh [PDF]
Great Ilkhanid Shahnameh’s drawings depict Mongolian rulers' aspirations, ideals, and desires as well as their way of life and culture. Such a depiction in connection with Turco-Mongolian culture is described in the obituaries of Esfandiar, Rostam and ...
Masoumeh Azarmdel, Mehdi Mohammadzadeh
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Dash Kasan; an imperial architecture in the Mongol capital of Sultaniyya [PDF]
By the time of Kublai’s death, the Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires including the Golden Horde [Kipchak] in the northwest, the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, the Ilkhanate, based in modern-day Iran, and the Yuan ...
Moradi, Amin
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The Institution of Bukaul in Turko-Mongol States: Ilkhanid, Jochid and Chagataid Traditions
Introduction. The article examines the institution of bukaul in Chinggisid states and their successors. Special attention is given to functions implemented by the official in the uluses of Hulagu, Jochi and Chagatai — and the former’s evolution throughout centuries. It is also explained why the functions tended to vary in different Turko-Mongol states.
Ilias A. Mustakimov +3 more
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Islamic Stuccos made Digital. Digitality and Studies of Islamic Art and Architecture
This paper is written based on workshop discussions and on my research paper presented at the University of Bayreuth’s DFG funded conference, entitled: Wie Digitalität die Geisteswissenschaften verändert.
Ana Marija Grbanovic
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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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Discursive Analysis of Power Transformation: From Seljuq Jurisprudence to Mysticism in the Ilkhanid Era with a Focus on Rumi's Position [PDF]
This study, employing a discourse analysis method and the theoretical framework of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to examine the discursive transition from a state based on Sunni jurisprudence to one based on Sufism (mysticism) during the Seljuq and ...
Mozhgan Osmani +1 more
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Research objectives: A study of questions about the time of the emergence of the “Tatar” trade route (“Via Tatarica”), the influence of external factors and internal political processes in the ulus of Jochi on the formation and development of this trade ...
Vorotyntsev L.V.
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