Introduction à l’Histoire des Mongols de Fadl Allah Rashid ed-din

Edgard Blochet, Charles Melville (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

406 Seiten

2017
Gibb Memorial Trust (Verlag)
978-1-909724-84-6 (ISBN)

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This pioneering study, written in French and first published in 1910, is now available again. It provides an introduction to Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh, a 14th century text describing world history including China, Europe and Mongol history.

Edgard Blochet (1870-1937), the French orientalist, left his mark in several areas of Middle Eastern and Asian studies. In 1910 his introduction to Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh was published as volume XII in the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series. The Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh has been described as the first ‘world history’; written at the start of the fourteenth century, in the Mongol Ilkhanate in Persia, it describes cultures and major events in world history from China to Europe and in addition, it covers Mongol history.

Introduction à l’Histoire des Mongols is a rich and complex work, and one that has been unduly lost sight of in more recent scholarship. Blochet is concerned chiefly with the transformation of the Mongol Empire from the death of its founder into a Chinese dynasty with complex relations with its former constituent territories in Transoxania, Russia and Iran in the period covered by the portion of the Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh that he was editing. This introductory volume does not offer conclusions, but it provides a valuable survey of the place of Rashīd al-Dīn’s chronicle in the historical literature of the time and its impact on later historiography. Despite the very considerable body of work dedicated to Rashīd al-Dīn, his chronicle, the history of Ilkhanid Iran and Yuan China and the linguistic analysis of the primary sources since Blochet’s time, this reprint of a work that has long been unavailable aims to encourage a re-evaluation of his pioneering contributions to the field. The original French text is re-published here, accompanied by a new preface by Charles Melville.

Edgard Blochet (1870-1937) worked at the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from 1895 until 1935, during which time he produced a valuable series of catalogues, most notably his Catalogue des manuscrits persans de la Bibliothèque Nationale. In the field of mediaeval history, he edited the Arabic chronicle of the Mamluk historian, Mufaḍḍal b. Abi’l-Faḍā’il (c. 759/1358). Blochet also edited a portion of the Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh, covering from the accession of Ögedei Qa’an to part of the reign of Temür Qa’an (1227–1303), published in the E.JW. Gibb Memorial Series as volume XVIII/2 (1911). Charles Melville is Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge, and Vice-President of the British Institute of Persian Studies. His main research interests are in the history and historiography of medieval Iran, with a concentration on the Mongol–Safavid periods (13th-17th centuries), and text-image studies of Persian manuscripts, particularly the Shahnama of Firdausi and historical texts (chronicles). His most recent publication is The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and transformation in Ilkhanid Iran (co-edited), Leiden 2016.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2017
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-909724-84-X / 190972484X
ISBN-13	978-1-909724-84-6 / 9781909724846
Zustand	Neuware