History and historiography of post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East : studies in honor of John E. Woods / edited by Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn ; in collaboration with Ernest Tucker

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Judith Pfeiffer & Sholeh A. Quinn -- Mongol world empire. -- World-conquest and local accomodation: threat and blandishment in Mongol diplomacy / Peter Jackson -- "Stuck in the throat of Chingīz Khān:" envisioning the Mongol conquests in some Sufi accounts from the 14th to 17th centuries / Devin de Weese -- Qongrat in history / İsenbike Togan -- References to economic and cultural life in Anatolia in the letters of Rashīd al-Dīn / Zeki Velidi Togan, trans. Gery Leiser -- Autonomous enclaves in Islamic states: temlîks, soyurghals, yurdluḳ-ocaḳlıḳs, mâlikâne-muḳâṭaʻas and awqāf / Halil İnalcık -- Early Persian historiography of Anatolia / Charles Melville -- Aḥmad Tegüder's second letter to Qalāʼūn (682/1283) / Judith Pfeiffer -- Age of Timur. -- A note on the life and works of Ibn ʻArabshāh / R.D. McChesney -- On the Persian original Vālidiyya of Khvāja Aḥrār / Eiji Mano -- Local histories of Southern Iran / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Shahīdī Qumī: poet laureate of the Āqquyūnlū court / Paul E. Losensky -- Safavids and their legacy. A "new" edition of Ṣafvat al-ṣafā / Michel M. Mazzaoui -- Coronation narratives in Safavid Chronicles / Sholeh A. Quinn -- Seeking a world empire: Nādir Shāh in Tīmūr's path / Ernest Tucker -- Mujassama-ī būd mujassama-ī nabūd: the image of the Safavids in 20th century Iranian popular historiography / Camron Michael Amin -- Mamluk studies. -- Apostasy trials in eighth/fourteenth century Egypt and Syria: a case study / Anne F. Broadbridge -- Reading Adab in historical light: factuality and ambiguity in Ibn Dāniyāl's "Occasional verses" on Mamluk society and politics / Li Guo -- Celebrating the Maḥmal: the Rajab Festival in fifteenth century Cairo / John Melody -- Mansa Mūsā's gold in Mamluk Cairo: a reappraisal of a world civilizations anecdote / Warren Schultz -- Historical geography. -- Damandān = Tamandān (Kirmān - Makrān/Taftān - Damandān) / Īraj Afshār -- A closer definition of geographical names in the Secret history of the Mongols / D. Bazargur & D. Enkhbayar -- Inter-regional contacts and cross-cultural transmission. -- Han-Lin Academy and the Persian Royal Library-Atelier / Abolala Soudavar -- When hell is other people: a Safavid view of seventeenth-century Mughal India / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Cross-cultural contacts in Eurasia: persianate art in Ottoman Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr -- Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, Abū Yūsuf, and the concept of Islamic civilization / Douglas E. Streusand