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Iran After the Mongols

2019
Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today's Iran, including the area of greater Khorasan. The Persian language
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Women in Mongol Iran: the Khātūns, 1206–1335

Central Asian Survey, 2018
Bruno de Nicola’s recently published book on the history of the khātūns in Mongol Iran (1206–1335) is a long-awaited contribution to the study of women’s history in the Mongol Empire.
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Post-Mongol States and Early Modern Chronology in Iran and China

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2016
AbstractIn the aftermath of the Mongol occupations of the largest and most populous societies of Eurasia, greater visibility of popular religion, more widespread vernacular language use, rising literacy, and fundamental shifts in the structure of rulership and the relationship of state and society could all be observed.
PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY, GENE R. GARTHWAITE
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The Royal Image in Mongol Iran

2013
This chapter offers a brief survey of the topic with respect to illustrated Persian texts produced in the Mongol period in Iran. It focuses on two distinct types of work, the verse epic and the prose chronicle. The first is represented by the Shahnama (“Book of Kings”), by the poet Abu’l-Qasim Firdausi, completed in AD 1010. The second is represented
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Khidma in the Social History of pre-Mongol Iran

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2014
Khidma (Ar., literally “service”) denotes the binding subordination of a slave or free-born noble to a lord, master, or patron—often the ruling sultan, but sometimes lesser figures—involving mutual obligations and mutual loyalty. This article studies this relationship and the ceremonies by which it was concluded in eastern Iran in the twelfth century ...
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Iran under the Mongols

What were the effects of Mongol rule in Iran? This book focuses on Shiraz and the province of Fars to provide a detailed political, social and economic history of Ilkhanid rule from the first Mongol invasions in 1220 until the end of the Injuid Dynasty in 1357.
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Buddhism during the Mongol Period in Iran

2012
In the search for physical traces of Buddhism after the fourteenth-century fall of the Il-Khan Mongols in Iran, we find almost nothing with a concrete Buddhist signature, even though the Mongols’ first five rulers were Buddhist. This lack of evidence is due to the conversion of the late Il-Khans to Islam and the consequent eradication or transformation
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The Preconditions to Becoming a Judge (Yarġuči) in Mongol Iran

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2016
AbstractDespite the existence of some general overviews, the institution of the Mongol tribunals has not been studied in a satisfactory way. A great deal of details are unclear and the functioning of the whole legal procedure is shrouded in obscurity. The present paper makes an attempt to elucidate an aspect of the historical development of this Turco ...
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Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran

2013
Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture.
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Patrons orMurīds? Mongol Women and Shaykhs in Ilkhanid Iran and Anatolia

Iran, 2014
The interactions between the Mongols and religious leaders from different confessions have been documented since the early period of the Mongol Empire. When the Mongols conquered Iran and Anatolia and established the Ilkhanid dynasty, the interaction between the Mongol court and Sufi shaykhs became more apparent. Mongol courtly women (khātūns), who had
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