RT Article
T1 Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia: Religious Syncretism, Architectural Mobility and Cultural Transformation
JF Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
VO 62
IS 2/3
SP 318
OP 355
A1 Blair, Sheila
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817459104
AB Abstract The first Mongol khans were buried in hidden graves, but later Mongols adopted the Muslim practice of building aboveground domed tombs. This essay examines three domed mausolea typical of the Muslim lands erected in the early to mid-14th century in different Mongol khanates—that built for the Ilkhan Öljeitü at Sultaniyya, a second for the Chaghadaid Buyan Quli Khan outside Bukhara, and a third anonymous tomb at Guyuan, Hebei, in the Yuan territories of north China—to show how different Mongol patrons interpreted the same form and funerary traditions associated with it.
K1 Guyuan
K1 Bukhara
K1 Sultaniyya
K1 dome
K1 Tomb
DO 10.1163/15685209-12341481