Amitai, Reuven.

The Mongols in the Islamic lands : studies in the history of the Ilkhanate / Reuven Amitai. - Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, c2007. - 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Variorum collected studies series ; CS873 . - Collected studies ; CS873. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evidence for the early use of the title Ilkhan among the Mongols -- Turco-Mongolian nomads and the iqṭaʻ system in the Islamic Middle East (ca. 1000-1400 AD) -- New material from the Mamluk sources for the biography of Rashid al-Din -- Al-Nuwayrī as a historian of the Mongols -- The conversion of Tegüder Ilkhan to Islam -- Ghazan, Islam and Mongol tradition : a view from the Mamlūk Sultanate -- Sufis and shamans : some remarks on the Islamization of the Mongols in the Ilkhanate -- Mongol raids into Palestine (A.D. 1260 and 1300) -- ʻAyn Jālūt revisited -- An exchange of letters in Arabic between Abagha Īlkhān and Sultan Baybars (A.H. 667/A.D. 1268-69) -- Edward of England and Abagha Ilkhan : a reexamination of a failed attempt at Mongol-Frankish cooperation -- Mongol imperial ideology and the Ilkhanid war against the Mamluks -- Mamluk perceptions of the Mongol-Frankish rapprochement -- Northern Syria between the Mongols and Mamluks : political boundary, military frontier, and ethnic affinities -- Whither the Ilkhanid army? : Ghazan's first campaign into Syria (1299-1300) -- The resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War.

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Ilkhanid dynasty.


Mongols--History.


Iran--History--1256-1500.

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