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The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality : Studies in Anthropological History /
In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2015.
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| Colección: | Iran studies ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The memoria of the Mongols in historical and literary sources
- Mythico-legendary figures and history between east and west
- The Mongols and the legend of Prester John
- The historiographical works of Barhebraus on the Mongol period
- The historical Taqwim in Muslim east
- Part II. Shamanism and Islam
- Shamanism and Islam in Central Asia: two antinomic religious universes?
- The transformation of a myth of origins, Genghis Khan and Timur
- Mongol law versus Islamic law: myth and reality
- Part III. Conquering the world protected by the Tenggeri
- From 'non-negotiation' to an abortive alliance: thoughts on the diplomatic exchanges between the Mongols and the Latin west
- Hulegu's letters to the last Ayyubid ruler of Syria: the construction of a model
- Part IV. Mamluks and Ilkhans: the quest of legitimacy
- Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch: Baybars and the Ilkhans
- The written and the spoken word: Baybars and the Caliphal investiture ceremonies in Cairo
- Ghazan Khan's invasion of Syria: polemics on his conversion to Islam and the Christian troops in his army
- A religious response to Ghazan Khan's invasions of Syria: the three "anti-Mongol" fatwas of Ibn Taymiyya
- Epilogue: The Mongol empire after Genghis Khan.