Ilkhanid Research Articles

Studying Mandarin Square Badge Designs in Ilkhanid and Timurid Garments and Matching them with Yuan and Ming Chinese Garments

Studying Mandarin Square Badge Designs in Ilkhanid and Timurid Garments and Matching them with Yuan and Ming Chinese Garments

Yuka Kadoi. “Chinese and Turko-Mongol elements in Ilkhanid and Timurid arts: part 1: the Mongols (c. 1250 -1350”

Reconnue pour son travail sur la problematique des transferts culturels et materiels entre l’Iran medieval et l’Extreme Orient, Yuka Kadoi est deja l’auteure de plusieurs articles sur ce theme ainsi que d’un ouvrage issu de sa these (Islamic Chinoiserie : The Art of the Mongol Iran, 2009). Dans la presente contribution qui se veut synthetique, elle propose une approche originale, tirant pretexte de divers medias pour les mettre en regard avec des problematiques qu’ils illustrent significative...

Marriage, Family and Politics: The Ilkhanid-Oirat Connection

AbstractThe Chinggisids clearly favoured specific in-law clans through policies of repeated marriage over generations. This paper charts the fortunes of one such clan, the Oirats, who first joined the Chinggisids when Chinggis Khan and Börte's daughter Chechiyegen wedded an Oirat prince. Thereafter Chechiyegen's own daughters married back to the Toluid, Jochid and Chagatayid families. This paper follows those Oirats who intermarried with the Ilkhanids, beginning with Chechiyegen's daughter Güyük and ending with the Toluid-Oirat Ilkhan, Abū Sa‘īd (r. 1317-1335).

Where the Sultan Reigns: The Redemption of a Damned Reference to the Ilkhan from Dante’s Inferno

Where the Sultan Reigns: The Redemption of a Damned Reference to the Ilkhan from Dante’s Inferno

Judith Pfeiffer. Reflections on a ‘Double Rapprochement’: Conversion to Islam among the Mongol Elite during the Early Ilkhanate

En s’appuyant sur les notices des emirs contenues dans le Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīḫ de Rasīd al-Dīn, J.P. montre que la conversion a l’islam a ete un long processus qui semble avoir debute en 1250, avant la conquete de Bagdad. La documentation prouve a l’evidence que les cheikhs soufis ont joue un role majeur dans l’islamisation de Mongols. J.P. fait remarquer que dans les armes ilkhanides, les contingents turcs musulmans veneraient ces cheikhs. On trouvera (p. 374) un tableau, tire des informations r...

Inner-Worldly Religiosity, Social Structuring and Fraternal Incorporation in a Time of Uncertainty: The Futuwwat-nāma of Najm al-Dīn Zarkūb of Tabriz

Through a close and historically contextualised reading of the text, this article examines the discourse of inner-worldly religiosity, social structuring and fraternal incorporation in the heretofore little studied epitome of a longer (now lost) futuwwat-nāma composed by a seventh/thirteenth-century Sufi author from Il Khanid Tabriz, Abū Bakr Muammad b. Mawdūd āhirī Tabrīzī, better known as Najm al-Dīn Zarkūb. Arguing that the text reflects the presence of an increasingly ubiquitous pattern of social organisation associated with urban Muslim communities in the era following the Turco-Mongol invasions of the eastern and central lands of Islamdom, it proposes that the type of Sufi-futuwwa tradition valorised by the author contained elements ideally suited to fostering cohesion amongst individuals who, collectively, envisioned the social sodality formed thereby as a source of stability and order during a time of heightened uncertainty.

The Court of the Il-khans, 1290-1340

The Court of the Il-khans, 1290-1340

Tegüder's Ultimatum to Qalawun

The Ilkhan Tegüder (r. 1282–84), who took the name Ahmad when he converted to Islam, is widely credited with having interrupted—for the duration of his brief reign—the Mamluk-Ilkhanid conflict which had continued unabated since the battle of 'Ayn Jalut (1260). He is also credited with sending two embassies to Qalawun (r. 1280–90), his Mamluk counterpart: the first in 1282 and the second at the end of 1284.

The Relations between Edward I and Edward II of England and the Mongol Īl-Khāns of Persia

The Relations between Edward I and Edward II of England and the Mongol Īl-Khāns of Persia

Comment on M. B. Smith's Review of Wilber's Work on Il Khanid Architecture

Comment on M. B. Smith's Review of Wilber's Work on Il Khanid Architecture