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Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia Generals Merchants and Intellectuals 1st Edition by Michal Biran 9780520970786 0520970780

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Author(s): Michal Biran (editor), Jonathan Brack (editor), Francesca Fiaschetti (editor)

ISBN(s): 9780520298743, 0520298748

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 26.10 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-34884360 Category: History - Asian History Tags: 0520970780, 9780520970786, Francesca Fiaschetti (editor), Jonathan Brack (editor), Michal Biran (editor), Silk Roads

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Author: Michal Biran

Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia
Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people—military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals—from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations.

Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire’s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads.

Table contents:

Part One. Generals
1. Guo Kan: Military Exchanges between China and the Middle East
2. Baiju: The Mongol Conqueror at the Crossfire of Dynastic Struggle
3. Qutulun: The Warrior Princess of Mongol Central Asia
4. Yang Tingbi: Mongol Expansion along the Maritime Silk Roads
5. Sayf al-Dīn Qipchaq al-Manṣūrī: Defection and Ethnicity between Mongols and Mamluks
6. Tuqtuqa and His Descendants: Cross-Regional Mobility and Political Intrigue in the Mongol Yuan Army
Part Two. Merchants
7. Jaʿfar Khwāja: Sayyid, Merchant, Spy, and Military Commander of Chinggis Khan
8. Diplomacy, Black Sea Trade, and the Mission of Baldwin of Hainaut
9. Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭībī: The Iraqi Trader Who Traversed Asia
10. Taydula: A Golden Horde Queen and Patron of Christian Merchants
Part Three. Intellectuals
11. Rashīd al-Dīn: Buddhism in Iran and the Mongol Silk Roads
12. Fu Mengzhi: “The Sage of Cathay” in Mongol Iran and Astral Sciences along the Silk Roads
13. ʿĪsa Kelemechi: A Translator Turned Envoy between Asia and Europe
14. Pādshāh Khatun: An Example of Architectural, Religious, and Literary Patronage in Ilkhanid Iran
15. Islamic Learning on the Silk Roads: The Career of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Akhawī