Beyond the legacy of Genghis Khan
Introduction --- PART I. Culture and commerce in the Mongol World Empire. 1. Cultural transmission and exchange in the Mongol Empire : notes from the biographical dictionary of Ibn al-Fuwati --- 2. Diplomatic missions and gifts exchanged by Mamluks and Ilkhans --- 3. Jochid luxury metalwork : issues...
| Summary: | Introduction --- PART I. Culture and commerce in the Mongol World Empire. 1. Cultural transmission and exchange in the Mongol Empire : notes from the biographical dictionary of Ibn al-Fuwati --- 2. Diplomatic missions and gifts exchanged by Mamluks and Ilkhans --- 3. Jochid luxury metalwork : issues of genesis and development --- 4. The maritime trade of kish during the Mongol period --- 5. Ilkhanid rule and its contributions to Iranian political culture ---- PART II. 1. Avraga site : the 'Great Ordu' of Genghis Khan --- 2. The Ilkhanid Palace at Takht-i Sulayman : excavation results --- 3. Hulegu moves west : high living and heartbreak on the road to Baghdad --- 4. The Keshig in Iran : the survival of the royal Mongol household ---- PART III. The art of the book in Ikhanid Iran. 1. Calligraphers, illuminators, and painters in the Ilkhanid scriptorium --- 2. Erudition exalted : the double frontispiece to the epistles of the sincere brethren --- 3. In the beginning : frontispieces and front matter in Ilkhanid and Injuid manuscripts --- 4. Patronage of the arts of the book under the Injuids of Shiraz --- 5. Thoughts on a Shahnama legacy of the fourteenth century : four Inju manuscripts and the great Mongol Shahnama ---- PART IV. The arts and artistic interchange. 1. Paper : the transformative medium in Ilkhanid art --- 2. Chinese motifs in thirteenth-century Armenian art : the Mongol connection --- 3. Pottery under the Mongols --- 4. Persian poetry on Ilkhanid art and architecture ---- PART V. State and religion in Ikhanid Iran. 1. Horoscopes and planetary theory : Ilkhanid patronage of astronomers --- 2. Reflections on a 'double rapprochement' : conversion to Islam among the Mongol elite during the early Ilkhanate --- 3. Religious diversity under Ilkhanid rule c. 1300 as reflected in the Freer Bal'ami --- 4. The Mongol legacy of Persian Farmans ---- PART VI. Concluding remarks. 1. The Mongol Empire in world history.₉ This publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. This collection of 23 papers by many of the main authorities in the field demonstrates both the scope and the depth of the current state of Mongol-related studies and will undoubtedly inspire and provoke further research. The text is profusely illustrated by 27 color and 110 black-and-white illustrations |
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| Item Description: | "Originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art"--P. [4] of cover. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-502) and index. - Description based on print version record Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-502) and index |
| ISBN: | 1435655036 |