Making Mongol History

Rashid al-Din and the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh

Stefan Kamola (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474483872 (ISBN)

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This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It begins with an overview of administrative history and historiography in the early Ilkhanate, culminating with Rashid al-Din’s Blessed History of Ghazan, the indispensable source for Mongol and Ilkhanid history. Later chapters lay out the results of the most comprehensive study to date of the manuscripts of Rashid al-Din’s historical writing. The complicated relationship between Rashid al-Din’s historical and theological writings is also explored, as well as his appropriation of the work of his contemporary historian, `Abd Allah Qashani.

Stefan Kamola (BA Oberlin College, MA/PhD Washington) is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna, pursuing a project on Ilkhanid historiography funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FwF M-3187). His previous research and first book focused on the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (d. 1318). Recently, his scholarship has turned towards the practice of astrology in the Seljuk and Mongol periods.

Preface

Chapter 1. Mongols in a Muslim world, 1218-1280

Chapter 2. The likely course of an unlikely life, 1248-1302

Chapter 3. Mongol dynastic history, 1302-1304

Chapter 4. New projects of faith and power, 1304-1312

Chapter 5. Remaking Mongol history, 1307-1313

Chapter 6. Creating the image of Rashid al-Din, 1312-1335

Epilogue. Rashid al-Din at the court of Shahrokh

Appendix A. The Collected Histories and its illustrations

Appendix B. A descriptive catalogue of manuscripts of the Collected Histories

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	21.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	10 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781474483872 / 9781474483872
Zustand	Neuware