Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia : generals, merchants, intellectuals /
During the 13th and 14th centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary, Iraq to Tibet, Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas and object...
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Berkeley :
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Guo Kan: military exchanges between China and the Middle East / Florence Hodous
- Baiju: the Mongol conqueror at the crossfire of dynastic struggle / Sara Nur Yıldız
- Qutulun: the warrior princess of Mongol Central Asia / Michal Biran
- Yang Tingbi: Mongol expansion along the maritime silk roads / Masaki Mukai and Francesca Fiaschetti
- Sayf al-Dīn Qipchaq al-Manṣūrī: defection and ethnicity between Mongols and Mamluks / Amir Mazor
- Tuqtuqa and his descendants: cross-regional mobility and political intrigue in the Mongol Yuan army / Vered Shurany
- Ja'far Khwāja: Sayyid, merchant, spy and military commander of Chinggis Khan / Qiu Yihao
- Diplomacy, black sea trade and the mission of Baldwin of Hainaut / John Giebfried
- Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ṭībī: the Iraqi trader who traversed Asia / Matanya Gill
- Taydula: a Golden Horde queen and patron of Christian merchants / Szilvia Kovács
- Rashīd al-Dīn: Buddhism in Iran and the Mongol silk roads / Jonathan Brack
- Fu Mengzhi: "the sage of Cathay" in Mongol Iran and astral sciences along the silk roads / Yoichi Isahaya
- 'īsa Kelemechi: a translator turned envoy between Asia and Europe / Kim Hodong And Wonhee Cho
- Pādshāh Khatun: an example of architectural, religious, and literary patronage in Ilkhanid Iran / Bruno De Nicola
- Islamic learning on the silk roads: the career of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Akhawī / Or Amir.