David O. (Hrsg.) Morgan

The Coming of the Mongols

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The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork for the later Mongol success. In the mid-twelfth century the Seljuq empire rapidly unravelled, its vast provinces fragmenting into a patchwork of mostly short-lived principalities and kingdoms. In time, new powers emerged, such as the pagan Qara-Khitai in Central Asia; the Khwarazmshahs in Khwarazm, Khorosan and much of central Iran; and the G… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Stewart, Sarah (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78673-383-2
EAN: 9781786733832
Produktnummer: 30105294
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 4'437 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 15 black and white illustrations

Über den Autor

David O Morgan is Emeritus Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the foremost authorities on the Mongols and the Mongol Empire writing in English, he is the author of The Mongols (1986, second edition 2007) and Medieval Persia, 1040-1797 (1988, second edition 2015). He co-edited with Anthony Reid Volume 3 of The New Cambridge History of Islam titled The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. He is a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1987-99) and is now an advisory board member of the book series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Sarah Stewart is Lecturer in Zoroastrianism at SOAS in the University of London. A former Deputy Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI), she has co-edited six previous volumes in The Idea of Iran series. She curated The Everlasting Flame exhibition in London in 2013, serving as editor of a volume published by I.B.Tauris in the same year under the same title. She also co-edited with Alan Williams a later book entitled The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition (I.B.Tauris, 2016).