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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. 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.
In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested
arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler’s sacred kingship,
and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court
of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators, Buddhist
monks, and Christian clergy all attempted to sway their imperial
overlords, arguing fiercely over the proper role of the king and
his government, with momentous and far-reaching consequences.
 Focusing on the famous but understudied figure of the grand
vizier Rashid al-Din, a Persian Jew who converted to Islam,
Jonathan Z. Brack explores the myriad ways Rashid al-Din and his
fellow courtiers investigated, reformulated, and transformed
long-standing ideas of authority and power. Out of this
intellectual ferment of accommodation, resistance, and
experimentation, they developed a completely new understanding of
sacred kingship. This new ideal, and the political theology it
subtends, would go on to become a central justification in imperial
projects across Eurasia in the centuries that followed. An
Afterlife for the Khan offers a powerful cultural and intellectual
history of this pivotal moment for Islam and empire in the Middle
East and Asia.
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. 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.
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