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
- xx, 604 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Mongol world empire. -- World-conquest and local accomodation: threat and blandishment in Mongol diplomacy / "Stuck in the throat of Chingīz Khān:" envisioning the Mongol conquests in some Sufi accounts from the 14th to 17th centuries / Qongrat in history / References to economic and cultural life in Anatolia in the letters of Rashīd al-Dīn / Autonomous enclaves in Islamic states: temlîks, soyurghals, yurdluḳ-ocaḳlıḳs, mâlikâne-muḳâṭaʻas and awqāf / Early Persian historiography of Anatolia / Aḥmad Tegüder's second letter to Qalāʼūn (682/1283) / Age of Timur. -- A note on the life and works of Ibn ʻArabshāh / On the Persian original Vālidiyya of Khvāja Aḥrār / Local histories of Southern Iran / Shahīdī Qumī: poet laureate of the Āqquyūnlū court / Safavids and their legacy. A "new" edition of Ṣafvat al-ṣafā / Coronation narratives in Safavid Chronicles / Seeking a world empire: Nādir Shāh in Tīmūr's path / Mujassama-ī būd mujassama-ī nabūd: the image of the Safavids in 20th century Iranian popular historiography / Mamluk studies. -- Apostasy trials in eighth/fourteenth century Egypt and Syria: a case study / Reading Adab in historical light: factuality and ambiguity in Ibn Dāniyāl's "Occasional verses" on Mamluk society and politics / Celebrating the Maḥmal: the Rajab Festival in fifteenth century Cairo / Mansa Mūsā's gold in Mamluk Cairo: a reappraisal of a world civilizations anecdote / Historical geography. -- Damandān = Tamandān (Kirmān - Makrān/Taftān - Damandān) / A closer definition of geographical names in the Secret history of the Mongols / Inter-regional contacts and cross-cultural transmission. -- Han-Lin Academy and the Persian Royal Library-Atelier / When hell is other people: a Safavid view of seventeenth-century Mughal India / Cross-cultural contacts in Eurasia: persianate art in Ottoman Istanbul / Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, Abū Yūsuf, and the concept of Islamic civilization / Judith Pfeiffer & Sholeh A. Quinn -- Peter Jackson -- Devin de Weese -- İsenbike Togan -- Zeki Velidi Togan, trans. Gery Leiser -- Halil İnalcık -- Charles Melville -- Judith Pfeiffer -- R.D. McChesney -- Eiji Mano -- Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Paul E. Losensky -- Michel M. Mazzaoui -- Sholeh A. Quinn -- Ernest Tucker -- Camron Michael Amin -- Anne F. Broadbridge -- Li Guo -- John Melody -- Warren Schultz -- Īraj Afshār -- D. Bazargur & D. Enkhbayar -- Abolala Soudavar -- Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr -- Douglas E. Streusand