This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority
was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire
(1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the
Ilkhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was
intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan,
whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of
legitimate authority amongst his political successors. Yet Chinggis
Khan's legacy was interpreted differently by the various factions
within his army. In the years after his death, two distinct
political traditions emerged within the Mongol Empire, the
collegial and the patrimonialist. Each of these streams represented
the economic and political interests of different groups within the
Mongol Empire, respectively, the military aristocracy and the
central government. The supporters of both streams claimed to
adhere to the ideal of Chinggisid rule, but their different
statuses within the Mongol community led them to hold divergent
views of what constituted legitimate political authority. Michael
Hope's study details the origin of, and the differences between,
these two streams of tradition; analyzing the role that these
streams played in the political development of the Mongol Empire
and the Ilkhanate; and assessing the role that ideological tension
between the two streams played in the events leading up to the
division of the Ilkhanate. Hope demonstrates that the policy and
identity of both the Early Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate were
defined by the conflict between these competing streams of
Chinggisid authority.
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