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This book studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (1256–1335). It primarily focuses on two major cities in the northwest of Iran, Ghazaniyya and Sultaniyya, and examines how the court-sponsored urban projects in these two cities reflected the interactions between Perso-Islamic sedentary concepts and ...
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The puzzling coins of the earliest Ottomans and their neighbors
Revue Numismatique, 2019 Osman, founder of the Ottoman Empire issued no coins ; his son and successor Orhan produced a great variety. This essay puts them in the context of the neighboring Turkish states and investigates their relations with the dominant Mongol Ilkhanids.
Foss, Clive
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The Ilkhanid Qurʾan: An Example from Maragha
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2015This essay examines a dispersed Qurʾan manuscript transcribed at Maragha by ʿAbdallah ibn Ahmad ibn Fadlallah ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid al-Qadi al-Qazwini between Shawwal 738 and Shawwal 739 (April 1338–April 1339). It takes the codex as an exemplar to show first how scriptoria in the Ilkhanid period codified features such as paper size, page format ...
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The Islamization Process of the Ilkhanids in Armenian Sources
2023The beginning of the İlkhanate-Armenian relations goes back to the travel of Het‘um I, the Armenian king of Cilicia, towards Qaraqorum in 1253 and his meeting with Möngke Khan. Following this meeting, as Hülegü was sent to the Near East, the Armenians participated voluntarily in Ilkhanid activities in the region and were their greatest supporters among
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Libraries, Books, and Transmission of Knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2019AbstractThe destruction of the Baghdadi libraries has been a powerful image connected to the Mongol conquest of 1258, often claimed to have precipitated the decline of Muslim civilization. This study, however, challenges this claim by reconstructing the state of libraries in Ilkhanid Baghdad, revealing a thriving intellectual community.
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Marriage, Family and Politics: The Ilkhanid-Oirat Connection
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2016AbstractThe Chinggisids clearly favoured specific in-law clans through policies of repeated marriage over generations. This paper charts the fortunes of one such clan, the Oirats, who first joined the Chinggisids when Chinggis Khan and Börte's daughter Chechiyegen wedded an Oirat prince. Thereafter Chechiyegen's own daughters married back to the Toluid,
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Christian Iconography in Ilkhanid Art of Painting
2023Tabriz under the rule of Ilkhanid witnessed a cultural revival in the first quarter of the 14th century. During this period, illustrated manuscripts were prepared under the sponsorship of Gazan Khan and Vizier Reşidüddin Fazlullah. The expansion strategy of the Ilkhanids from the Far East to Asia Minor and the dynamic relations they established with ...
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Ilkhanid Buddhism: Traces of a Passage in Eurasian History
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2014AbstractBuddhism contributed to the culture and politics of thirteenth-century Eurasian intellectual exchange, depositing literary, artistic, and architectural traces subsequently eclipsed by layers of Islamic and Eurocentric history. Within extensive cross-continental networks of diplomatic and commercial activity, Ilkhanid Buddhism and the Buddhist ...
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The Coins of the Later Ilkhanids : a Typological Analysis 1
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1983Ghizin Khin was undoubtedly the most brilliant of the Ilkhanid rulers of Persia: not only a commander and statesman, he was also a linguist, architect and bibliophile. One of his most lasting contributions was the reorganization of Iran's financial system.
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