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Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the
Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had
chosen to be his heir. This boof recounts the dynastic convolutions
and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and subsequent
events.
Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. This boof recounts the dynastic convolutions and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and subsequent events.
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.
This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the
different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout
history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book
examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish - real
and metaphorical- have played in Asian history, society, and
culture. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors
address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals,
dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in
war, and the representation of animals in literature and art.
Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the
environment, the volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach,
offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian
studies, world history and more.
This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the
different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout
history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book
examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish - real
and metaphorical- have played in Asian history, society, and
culture. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors
address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals,
dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in
war, and the representation of animals in literature and art.
Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the
environment, the volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach,
offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian
studies, world history and more.
In this novel perspective on a much-maligned figure, Michal Biran
explains the monumental impact Chinggis Khan has had upon the
Islamic World, both positive and negative. Often criticised as a
mass-slaughterer, pillager, and arch-enemy of the faith, Biran
shows that his constructive influence upon Islam was also
considerable - his legacy apparent in Central Asia even today.
Covering Chinggis Khan's early career, his conquests, the enduring
power of his descendents, and the numerous ways he is presented in
different Muslim contexts, this accessible book provides a
fascinating insight into one of the most notorious men in history.
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.
All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the
entire world', investing considerable human and material resources
in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop
expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy.
This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires'
expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and
military considerations to changing composition of the imperial
elites. Built around a common set of questions, a team of leading
specialists systematically compare a broad set of Eurasian empires
- from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han China, via the
Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans,
Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is
a state-of-the art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in
Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern that discerns
both commonalities and differences in the empires' spatial
trajectories.
All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule 'the
entire world', investing considerable human and material resources
in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop
expansion and come to terms with a shift to defensive strategy.
This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian empires'
expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and
military considerations to changing composition of the imperial
elites. Built around a common set of questions, a team of leading
specialists systematically compare a broad set of Eurasian empires
- from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han China, via the
Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans,
Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is
a state-of-the art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in
Eurasian history from antiquity to the early modern that discerns
both commonalities and differences in the empires' spatial
trajectories.
The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and
most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed
for nearly a century before it was conquered by the Mongols in
1218. Arriving in Central Asia from China, the Qara Khitai ruled
over a mostly Muslim population. Their history affords a unique
window onto the extensive cross-cultural contacts between China,
Inner Asian nomads and the Muslim world in the period preceding the
rise of Chinggis Khan. Using an extensive corpus of Muslim and
Chinese sources, Michal Biran comprehensively examines the
political, institutional and cultural histories of the Qara Khitai.
Her book explores a range of topics including the organization of
the army, the position of women, the image of China in Muslim
Central Asia, the religions of the Qara Khitai and the legacy they
left for the Mongols. Crucially she asks why they did not, unlike
their predecessors and successors in Central Asia, embrace Islam.
The book represents a groundbreaking contribution to the field of
Eurasian history for students of the Islamic world, China and
Central Asia.
The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and
most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed
for nearly a century before it was conquered by the Mongols in
1218. Arriving in Central Asia from China, the Qara Khitai ruled
over a mostly Muslim population. Their history affords a unique
window onto the extensive cross-cultural contacts between China,
Inner Asian nomads and the Muslim world in the period preceding the
rise of Chinggis Khan. Using an extensive corpus of Muslim and
Chinese sources, Michal Biran comprehensively examines the
political, institutional and cultural histories of the Qara Khitai.
Her book explores a range of topics including the organization of
the army, the position of women, the image of China in Muslim
Central Asia, the religions of the Qara Khitai and the legacy they
left for the Mongols. Crucially she asks why they did not, unlike
their predecessors and successors in Central Asia, embrace Islam.
The book represents a groundbreaking contribution to the field of
Eurasian history for students of the Islamic world, China and
Central Asia.
Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have
played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent
sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and
Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors
often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger
""barbarians, in fact"" their impact on sedentary cultures was far
more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with
which they have long been associated in the popular imagination.
The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social,
demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had
a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian
civilizations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and
ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs,
technologies, and physical artifacts, nomads were frequently active
contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their
active choices and initiatives helped set the cultural and
intellectual agenda of the lands they ruled and beyond. This volume
brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different
disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads
played the role of “agents of cultural change.” The beginning
chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in
ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is
devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both
a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer
understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played
in the history of the Old World. It conveys a sense of the complex
and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their
agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military
impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history. Nomads As Agents of
Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as active
promoters of cultural exchange within a vast and varied region. It
makes available important original scholarship on the new turn in
the study of the Mongol empire and on relations between the nomadic
and sedentary worlds.
Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have
played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent
sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and
Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbours
often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent
danger-"barbarians," in fact-their impact on sedentary cultures was
far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with
which they have long been associated in the popular imagination.
The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social,
demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had
a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian
civilisations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and
ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs,
technologies, and physical artefacts, nomads were frequently active
contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their
active choices and initiatives helped set the cultural and
intellectual agenda of the lands they ruled and beyond. This volume
brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different
disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads
played the role of "agents of cultural change." The beginning
chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in
ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is
devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both
a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer
understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played
in the history of the Old World. It conveys a sense of the complex
and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their
agricultural and urban neighbours, and highlights the non-military
impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history. Nomads as Agents of
Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as active
promoters of cultural exchange within a vast and varied region. It
makes available important original scholarship on the new turn in
the study of the Mongol empire and on relations between the nomadic
and sedentary worlds.
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