Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 The Mongol Conquest of the Middle East

Chapter 1 Mongol Conquest Strategy in the Middle East

Chapter 2 Continuity and Change in the Mongol Army of the Ilkhanate

Part 2 Internal Actors: Politics, Economy and Religion

Chapter 3 Shams al-Dīn Juwaynī, Vizier and Patron: Mediation between Ruler and Ruled in the Ilkhanate

Chapter 4 The Economic Role of Mongol Women: Continuity and Transformation from Mongolia to Iran

Chapter 5 Faith and the Law: Religious Beliefs and the Death Penalty in the Ilkhanate

Part 3 Culture and the Arts

Chapter 6 Music in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad: Ṣafī al-Dīn Urmawī and the Ilkhanid Circle of Musicians

Chapter 7 Historical Epic as Mongol Propaganda? Juwaynī’s Motifs and Motives

Chapter 8 From the Mongols to the Timurids: Refinement and Attrition in Persian Painting

Part 4 Relationships with Neighbouring Actors

Chapter 9 Champions of the Persian Language: The Mongols or the Turks?

Chapter 10 Darughachi in Armenia

Chapter 11 The Phoenix Mosque 鳯凰寺, 凤凰清真寺

Chapter 12 Mamluk and Mongol Peripheral Politics: Asserting Sovereignty in the Middle East’s ‘Kurdish Zone’ (1260–1330)

Epilogue

Chapter 13 The End of the Ilkhanate and After: Observations on the Collapse of the Mongol World Empire

Index