The Mongol Empire between myth and reality : studies in anthropological history
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The Mongol Empire between myth and reality : studies in anthropological history
（Iran studies, v. 11）
Brill, c2015
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-372) and index
Contents of Works
- Mythico-legendary figures and history between east and west
- The Mongols and the legend of Prester John
- The historiographical works of Barhebraeus on the Mongol period
- The historical taqwīm in Muslim east
- Shamanism and Islam in Central Asia: two antinomic religious universes?
- The transformation of a myth of origins, Genghis Khan and Timur
- Mongol law versus Islamic law : myth and reality
- From "non-negotiation" to an abortive alliance: thoughts on the diplomatic exchanges between the Mongols and the Latin west
- Hülegü's letters to the last Ayyubid ruler of Syria : the construction of a model
- Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch : Baybars and the Ilkhans
- The written and the spoken word : Baybars and the Caliphal investiture ceremonies in Cairo
- Ghazan Khan's invasion of Syria : polemics on his conversion to Islam and the Christian troops in his army
- A religious response to Ghazan Khan's invasions of Syria : the three "anti-Mongol" fatwās of Ibn Taymiyya
- Epilogue : the Mongol empire after Genghis Khan
