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The Mongol Empire Between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History

The Mongol Empire Between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History

Aigle, Denise

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004277498
ISBN13: 9789004277496
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 28 2014
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.89
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West. The first part is devoted to The memoria of the Mongols in historical and literary sources in which she examines how the Mongol rulers were perceived by the peoples with whom they were in contact. In Shamanism and Islam she studies the perception of shamanism by Muslim authors and their attempts to integrate Genghis Khan and his successors into an Islamic framework. The last sections deal with geopolitical questions involving the Ilkhans, the Mamluks, and the Latin West. Genghis Khan's successors claimed the protection of Eternal Heaven to justify their conquests even after their Islamization.

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