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History and historiography of post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: studies in honor of John E. Woods

History and historiography of post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: studies in honor of John E. Woods
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ISBN 3447052783 (hbk.)
9783447052788 (hbk.)
Title History and historiography of post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East : studies in honor of John E. Woods / edited by Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn ; in collaboration with Ernest Tucker
Publisher Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2006
Physical desc. xx, 604 p. ; ill., 1 port. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn -- The Mongol world empire. World-conquest and local accommodation: threat and blandishment in Mongol diplomacy / Peter Jackson -- 'Stuck in the throat of Chingīz Khān': envisioning the Mongol conquests in some Sufi accounts from the 14th to 17th centuries / Devin de Weese -- The Qongrat in history / Isenbike Togan -- References to economic and cultural life in Anatolia in the letters of Rashīd al-Dīn / Zeki Velidi Togan, trans. Gery Leiser -- Autonomous enclaves in Islamic states: temlîks, soyurghals, yurdluḳ-ocaḳlıḳs, mâlikâne-muḳâṭaʻas and awqāf / Halil Inalcık -- The early Persian historiography of Anatolia / Charles Melville -- Aḥmad Tegüder's second letter to Qalāʾūn (682/1283) / Judith Pfeiffer -- The age of Timur. A note on the life and works of Ibn ʻArabshāh / R.D. McChesney -- On the Persian original Vālidiyya of Khvāja Aḥrār / Eiji Mano -- Local histories of southern Iran / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Shahīdī Qumī: poet laureate of the Āqquyūnlū court / Paul E. Losensky -- The Safavids and their legacy. A 'new' edition of Ṣafvat al-ṣafā / Michel M. Mazzaoui -- Coronation narratives in Safavid chronicles / Sholeh A. Quinn -- Seeking a world empire: Nādir Shāh in Tīmūr's path / Ernest Tucker -- Mujassama-ī būd mujassama-ī nabūd: the image of the Safavids in 20th century Iranian popular historiography / Camron Michael Amin -- Mamluk studies. Apostasy trials in eighth/fourteenth-century Egypt and Syria: a case study / Anne F. Broadbridge -- Reading Adab in historical light: factuality and ambiguity in Ibn Dāniyāl's 'Occasional verses' on Mamluk society and politics / Li Guo -- Celebrating the Maḥmal: the Rajab Festival in fifteenth-century Cairo / John Meloy -- Mansa Mūsā's gold in Mamluk Cairo: a reappraisal of a world civilizations anecdote / Warren Schultz -- Historical geography. Damandān = Tamandān (Kirmān - Makrān/Taftān - Damandān) / Īraj Afshār -- A closer definition of geographical names in the Secret history of the Mongols / D. Bazargur and D. Enkhbayar -- Inter-regional contacts and cross-cultural transmission. The Han-Lin Academy and the Persian Royal Library-Atelier / Abolala Soudavar -- When hell is other people: a Safavid view of seventeenth-century Mughal India / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Cross-cultural contacts in Eurasia: Persianate art in Ottoman Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr -- Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, Abū Yūsuf, and the concept of Islamic civilization / Douglas E. Streusand.
Person as subject Woods, John E.
Subject Mongols -- History
Mongols -- Historiography
Mamelukes
Asia, Central -- History
Islamic Empire -- History -- 1258-1517
Iran -- History -- Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736
Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517
Added name(s) Pfeiffer, Judith 1964- ed.
Quinn, Sholeh Alysia ed.
Tucker, Ernest 1961-
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