Komaroff L. (ed.) Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan

Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2006. — 679 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts. Vol. 64). — ISBN13: 978-90-04-15083-6; ISBN10: 90-04-15083-8.This publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. This collection of 23 papers by many of the main authorities in the field demonstrates both the scope and the depth of the current state of Mongol-related studies and will undoubtedly inspire and provoke further research. The text is profusely illustrated by 27 color and 110 black-and-white illustrations.List of illustrations
Notes on transliterations and dates
List of contributorsCulture and Commerce in the Mongol World Empire
Devin De Weese. Cultural Transmission and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: Notes from the Biographical Dictionary of Ibn al-Fuwaṭī
Donald P. Little. Diplomatic Missions and Gifts Exchanged by Mamluks and Ilkhans
Mark Kramarovsky. Jochid Luxury Metalwork: Issues of Genesis and Development
Ralph Kauz. The Maritime Trade of Kish During the Mongol Period
Bert G. Fragner. Ilkhanid Rule and Its Contributions to Iranian Political CultureLifestyles at the Courts of the Ruling Elite
Noriyuki Shiraishi. Avraga Site: The ‘Great Ordū’ of Genghis Khan
Dietrich Huff. The Ilkhanid Palace at Takht-i Sulayman: Excavation Results
John Masson Smith, Jr. Hülegü Moves West: High Living and Heartbreak on the Road to Baghdad
Charles Melville. The Keshig in Iran: The Survival of the Royal Mongol HouseholdThe Arts of the Book in Ilkhanid Iran
Sheila S. Blair. Calligraphers, Illuminators, and Painters in the Ilkhanid Scriptorium
Robert Hillenbrand. Erudition Exalted: The Double Frontispiece to the Epistles of the Sincere Brethren
Marianna Shreve Simpson. In the Beginning: Frontispieces and Front Matter in Ilkhanid and Injuid Manuscripts
Elaine Wright. Patronage of the Arts of the Book under the Injuids of Shiraz
Eleanor Sims. Thoughts on a Shāhnāma Legacy of the Fourteenth Century: Four Īnjū Manuscripts and the Great Mongol ShāhnāmaThe Arts and Artistic Interchange
Jonathan M. Bloom. Paper: The Transformative Medium in Ilkhanid Art
Dickran Kouymjian. Chinese Motifs in Thirteenth-Century Armenian Art: The Mongol Connection
Oliver Watson. Pottery under the Mongols
Bernard O’Kane. Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture
George Saliba. State and Religion in Ilkhanid Iran Horoscopes and Planetary Theory: Ilkhanid Patronage of Astronomers
Judith Pfeiffer. Reflections on a ‘Double Rapprochement’: Conversion to Islam among the Mongol Elite during the Early Ilkhanate
Teresa Fitzherbert. Religious Diversity under Ilkhanid Rule c. 1300 as Reflected in the Freer Bal‘amī
Abolala Soudavar. The Mongol Legacy of Persian FarmānsConcluding Remarks
David Morgan. The Mongol Empire in World HistoryColor plates
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