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.
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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.
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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
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.
"Along the Silk Roads is an excellent addition to both Mongol
Empire studies and the Global Middle Ages. Collectively, its
chapters illustrate well the sheer scale of the political,
economic, and intellectual world forged through the Mongol
conquests and the ways in which individual human beings experienced
this vast new world. . . . [And it] contributes to the
much-needed task of repositioning Europe and the Mediterranean
world vis-à-vis the rest of the medieval world and constructing a
truly global view of the Middle Ages."
*Journal of Asian Studies*
"An extremely welcome collection. . . . Biran, Brack, and
Fiaschetti have succeeded in assembling a collection of papers that
reflect the extraordinary cultural vitality and ethnic diversity of
the Chinggisid empire."
*Journal of Islamic Studies*
"More important, however, is to emphasize the quality of the
biographies in this volume, which can serve as models for future
works on scientists, painters, craftsmen, and doctors of the Mongol
period."
*Silk Road*
"Yet another entry in the exciting work being undertaken on the
Mongols’ pluralist world."
*Asian Review of Books*
"The volume can serve very well as an introduction to the history
of the Mongol world because the authors take so many different
perspectives."
*Der Islam*
"This book collects a rich parterre of scholars and makes use of
Chinese, Persian, Arabic, Latin, Russian, Armenian and many other
sources: it certainly leaves the impression of a ‘thorough work’
and a remarkable instrument for the scientific community."
*Eurasian Studies*
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