Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan

CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 9
NOTES ON TRANSLITERATIONS AND DATES......Page 21
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 22
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 25
INTRODUCTION --- LINDA KOMAROFF......Page 28
CULTURE AND COMMERCE IN THE MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE......Page 36
CULTURAL TRANSMISSION AND EXCHANGE IN THE MONGOL EMPIRE: NOTES FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF IBN AL-FUWATĪ --- DEVIN DEWEESE......Page 38
DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS AND GIFTS EXCHANGED BY MAMLUKS AND ILKHANS --- DONALD P. LITTLE......Page 57
JOCHID LUXURY METALWORK: ISSUES OF GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT --- MARK KRAMAROVSKY......Page 70
THE MARITIME TRADE OF KISH DURING THE MONGOL PERIOD --- RALPH KAUZ......Page 78
ILKHANID RULE AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO IRANIAN POLITICAL CULTURE --- BERT G. FRAGNER......Page 95
LIFESTYLES AT THE COURTS OF THE RULING ELITE......Page 108
AVRAGA SITE: THE 'GREAT ORDŪ' OF GENGHIS KHAN --- NORIYUKI SHIRAISHI......Page 110
THE ILKHANID PALACE AT TAKHT-I SULAYMAN: EXCAVATION RESULTS --- DIETRICH HUFF......Page 121
HÜLEGÜ MOVES WEST: HIGH LIVING AND HEARTBREAK ON THE ROAD TO BAGHDAD --- JOHN MASSON SMITH, JR.......Page 138
THE KESHIG IN IRAN: THE SURVIVAL OF THE ROYAL MONGOL HOUSEHOLD --- CHARLES MELVILLE......Page 162
THE ARTS OF THE BOOK IN ILKHANID IRAN......Page 192
CALLIGRAPHERS, ILLUMINATORS, AND PAINTERS IN THE ILKHANID SCRIPTORIUM --- SHEILA S. BLAIR......Page 194
ERUDITION EXALTED: THE DOUBLE FRONTISPIECE TO THE EPISTLES OF THE SINCERE BRETHREN --- ROBERT HILLENBRAND......Page 210
IN THE BEGINNING: FRONTISPIECES AND FRONT MATTER IN ILKHANID AND INJUID MANUSCRIPTS --- MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON......Page 240
PATRONAGE OF THE ARTS OF THE BOOK UNDER THE INJUIDS OF SHIRAZ --- ELAINE WRIGHT......Page 275
THOUGHTS ON A SHĀHNĀMA LEGACY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: FOUR ĪNJŪ MANUSCRIPTS AND THE GREAT MONGOL SHĀHNĀMA --- ELEANOR SIMS......Page 296
THE ARTS AND ARTISTIC INTERCHANGE......Page 314
PAPER: THE TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIUM IN ILKHANID ART --- JONATHAN M. BLOOM......Page 316
CHINESE MOTIFS IN THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ARMENIAN ART: THE MONGOL CONNECTION --- DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN......Page 330
POTTERY UNDER THE MONGOLS --- OLIVER WATSON......Page 352
PERSIAN POETRY ON ILKHANID ART AND ARCHITECTURE --- BERNARD O'KANE......Page 373
STATE AND RELIGION IN ILKHANID IRAN......Page 382
HOROSCOPES AND PLANETARY THEORY: ILKHANID PATRONAGE OF ASTRONOMERS --- GEORGE SALIBA......Page 384
REFLECTIONS ON A 'DOUBLE RAPPROCHEMENT': CONVERSION TO ISLAM AMONG THE MONGOL ELITE DURING THE EARLY ILKHANATE --- JUDITH PFEIFFER......Page 396
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY UNDER ILKHANID RULE C. 1300 AS REFLECTED IN THE FREER BAL'AMĪ --- TERESA FITZHERBERT......Page 417
THE MONGOL LEGACY OF PERSIAN FARMĀNS --- ABOLALA SOUDAVAR......Page 434
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 450
THE MONGOL EMPIRE IN WORLD HISTORY --- DAVID MORGAN......Page 452
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 466
COLOR PLATES......Page 530
BLACK AND WHITE FIGURES......Page 560
INDEX......Page 672