Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29874-3 (ISBN)
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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.
Features and Benefits:
Synthesizes historical information from Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Latin sources that are otherwise inaccessible to English-speaking audiences.
Presents in an accessible manner individual life stories that serve as a springboard for discussing themes such as military expansion, cross-cultural contacts, migration, conversion, gender, diplomacy, transregional commercial networks, and more.
Each chapter includes a bibliography to assist students and instructors seeking to further explore the individuals and topics discussed.
Informative maps, images, and tables throughout the volume supplement each biography.
Michal Biran teaches Inner Asian, Chinese, and Islamic history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jonathan Brack teaches Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Francesca Fiaschetti teaches Inner and East Asian History at the University of Vienna.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Dates and Transliterations
Introduction
Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti
Part One. Generals
1. Guo Kan: Military Exchanges between China and the Middle East
Florence Hodous
2. Baiju: The Mongol Conqueror at the Crossfire of Dynastic Struggle
Sara Nur Yıldız
3. Qutulun: The Warrior Princess of Mongol Central Asia
Michal Biran
4. Yang Tingbi: Mongol Expansion along the Maritime Silk Roads
Masaki Mukai and Francesca Fiaschetti
5. Sayf al-Dīn Qipchaq al-Mans.ūrī: Defection and Ethnicity between Mongols and Mamluks
Amir Mazor
6. Tuqtuqa and His Descendants: Cross-Regional Mobility and Political Intrigue in the Mongol Yuan Army
Vered Shurany
Part Two. Merchants
7. Jaʿfar Khwāja: Sayyid, Merchant, Spy, and Military Commander of Chinggis Khan
Yihao Qiu
8. Diplomacy, Black Sea Trade, and the Mission of Baldwin of Hainaut
John Giebfried
9. Jamāl al-Dīn al-T. ībī: The Iraqi Trader Who Traversed Asia
Matanya Gill
10. Taydula: A Golden Horde Queen and Patron of Christian Merchants
Szilvia Kovács
Part Three. Intellectuals
11. Rashīd al-Dīn: Buddhism in Iran and the Mongol Silk Roads
Jonathan Brack
12. Fu Mengzhi: “The Sage of Cathay” in Mongol Iran and Astral Sciences along the Silk Roads
Yoichi Isahaya
13. ʿĪsa Kelemechi: A Translator Turned Envoy between Asia and Europe
Hodong Kim
14. Pādshāh Khatun: An Example of Architectural, Religious, and Literary Patronage in Ilkhanid Iran
Bruno De Nicola
15. Islamic Learning on the Silk Roads: The Career of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Akhawī
Or Amir
Glossary
Chronology
List of Contributors
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 13 maps - 20 halftones - 2 tables |
Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 635 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-29874-8 / 0520298748 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-29874-3 / 9780520298743 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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