| ISBN |
9004150838 |
| 9789004150836 |
| Title |
Beyond the legacy of Genghis Khan / edited by Linda Komaroff |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 |
| Physical desc. |
xxv, 652 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization Studies and texts 64 |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. 512 (Per 111.7); p. 555 (Is 1613.2, fol. 1v) |
| Selection of papers presented at a conference held June 13-15, 2003 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in connection with the exhibition, The legacy of Genghis Khan: courtly art and culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-502) and index |
| Contents |
Culture and commerce in the Mongol world empire: Cultural transmission and exchange in the Mongol Empire: notes from the biographical dictionary of Ibn al-Fuwati / Devin DeWeese. -- Diplomatic missions and gifts exchanged by Mamluks and Ilkhans / Donald P. Little. -- Jochid luxury metalwork: issues of genesis and development / Mark Kramarovsky. -- The maritime trade of Kish during the Mongol period / Ralph Kauz. -- Ilkhanid rule and its contributions to Iranian political culture / Bert G. Fragner. -- Lifestyles at the court of the ruling elite: Avraga site: the 'Great Ordu' of Genghis Khan / Noriyuki Shiraishi. -- The Ilkhanid palace at Takht-i Sulayman: excavation results / Dietrich Huff. -- Hülegü moves west: high living and heartbreak on the road to Baghdad / John Masson Smith, Jr.. -- The Keshig in Iran: the survival of the royal Mongol household / Charles Melville. -- The arts of the book in Ilkhanid Iran: Calligraphers, illuminators, and painters in the Ilkhanid scriptorium / Sheila S. Blair. -- Erudition exalted: the double frontispiece to the Epistles of the Sincere Brethren / Robert Hillenbrand. -- In the beginning: frontispieces and front matter in Ilkhanid and Injuid manuscripts / Marianna Shreve Simpson. -- Patronage of the arts of the book under the Injuids of Shiraz / Elaine Wright. -- Thoughts on a Shahnama legacy of the fourteenth century: four Inju manuscripts and the great Mongol Shahnama / Eleanor Sims. -- The arts and artistic interchange: Paper: the transformative medium in Ilkhanid art / Jonathan M. Bloom. -- Chinese motifs in thirteenth-century Armenian art: the Mongol connection / Dickran Kouymjian. -- Pottery under the Mongols / Oliver Watson. -- Persian poetry on Ilkhanid art and architecture / Bernard O'Kane. -- State and religion in Ilkhanid Iran: Horoscopes and planetary theory: Ilkhanid patronage of astronomers / George Saliba. -- Reflections on a 'double rapprochement': conversion to Islam among the Mongol elite during the early Ilkhanate / Judith Pfeiffer. -- Religious diversity under Ilkhanid rule c. 1300 as reflected in the Freer Bal'ami / Teresa Fitzherbert. -- The Mongol legacy of Persian Farmans / Abolala Soudavar. -- The Mongol Empire in world history / David Morgan. |
| Corporate name |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 111 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1613 |
| Shahnama |
| Mongols -- Iran -- History -- Congresses |
| Metal-work -- Asia |
| Ilkhanid dynasty -- Congresses |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian |
| Art, Armenian -- Chinese influences |
| Pottery, Asian |
| Persian poetry |
| Astronomy -- Iran |
| Religion -- Iran |
| Iran History -- 1256-1500 -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Wright, Elaine Julia contributor |
| Komaroff, Linda 1953- ed. |
