Reuven Amitai. Holy War and Rapprochement. Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335)

Abstract

Nearly two decades after the publication of his seminal work Mongols and Mamluks. The Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281, Prof. Reuven Amitai presents an updated and extended study of the sixty years’ war that opposed the Ilkhanids and the Mamluk sultanate in the 13th and 14th centuries. The monograph is a compilation of four lectures Prof. Amitai gave at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) in Paris in 2007 (organized by Prof. Denise Aigle) on the military, ideological, religious and soci...