Turko Mongol Rulers Cities And City Life

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004257009

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Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life by Anonim Pdf

For nearly a millennium, a large part of Asia was ruled by Turkic or Mongol dynasties of nomadic origin. What was the attitude of these dynasties towards the many cities they controlled, some of which were of considerable size? To what extent did they live like their subjects? How did they evolve? Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life aims to broaden the perspective on the issue of location of rule in this particular context by bringing together specialists in various periods, from pre-Chingissid Eurasia to nineteenth-century Iran, and of various disciplines (history, archaeology, history of art). Contributors include: Michal Biran, David Durand-Guédy, Kurt Franz, Peter Golden, Minoru Inaba, Nobuaki Kondo, Yuri Karev, Tomoko Masuya, Charles Melville, Jürgen Paul and Andrew Peacock

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434332

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Cities of Medieval Iran by Anonim Pdf

Cities of Medieval Iran brings together studies in urban geography, archaeology, and history of medieval Iranian cities, covering the millennium from 500 to 1500 AD, with a focus on urban actors themselves.

Author : Lynette Mitchell,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228979

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Every Inch a King by Lynette Mitchell,Charles Melville Pdf

Drawing on studies of kings from Cyrus to Shah Abbas, this volume provides a rich variety of readings on royal authority and its limitations in medieval societies in both Europe and the Middle East, exemplified especially in the case of Alexander the Great, God and King, and the persistence of his legend in later eras.

Author : Vernon W. Cisney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748696239

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Deleuze and Derrida by Vernon W. Cisney Pdf

Examines independent documentary film production in India within a political context.

Author : Suna Cagaptay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838605520

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The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire by Suna Cagaptay Pdf

From 1326 to 1402, Bursa, known to the Byzantines as Prousa, served as the first capital of the Ottoman Empire. It retained its spiritual and commercial importance even after Edirne (Adrianople) in Thrace, and later Constantinople (Istanbul), functioned as Ottoman capitals. Yet, to date, no comprehensive study has been published on the city's role as the inaugural center of a great empire. In works by art and architectural historians, the city has often been portrayed as having a small or insignificant pre-Ottoman past, as if the Ottomans created the city from scratch. This couldn't be farther from the truth. In this book, rooted in the author's archaeological experience, Suna Çagaptay tells the story of the transition from a Byzantine Christian city to an Islamic Ottoman one, positing that Bursa was a multi-faith capital where we can see the religious plurality and modernity of the Ottoman world. The encounter between local and incoming forms, as this book shows, created a synthesis filled with nuance, texture, and meaning. Indeed, when one looks more closely and recognizes that the contributions of the past do not threaten the authenticity of the present, a richer and more accurate narrative of the city and its Ottoman accommodation emerges.

Author : A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499361

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Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia by A. C. S. Peacock Pdf

A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Author : Prajakti Kalra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351850179

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The Silk Road and the Political Economy of the Mongol Empire by Prajakti Kalra Pdf

The growing importance of Central and Inner Asia and the Silk Road is much discussed at present. This book compares the nature of present day networks in these regions with the patterns of similar connections which existed at the time of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century and its successor states. It considers settlement patterns, technology and technology transfer, trade, political arrangements, the role of religion and the impact of the powerful states which border the region. Overall, the book demonstrates that the Mongol Empire anticipated many of the networks and connections which exist in the region at present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521816298

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Nomads in the Middle East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442214453

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Hammer and Anvil by Pamela Kyle Crossley Pdf

This groundbreaking book examines the role of rulers with nomadic roots in transforming the great societies of Eurasia, especially from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Distinguished historian Pamela Kyle Crossley, drawing on the long history of nomadic confrontation with Eurasia’s densely populated civilizations, argues that the distinctive changes we associate with modernity were founded on vernacular literature and arts, rising literacy, mercantile and financial economies, religious dissidence, independent learning, and self-legitimating rulership. Crossley finds that political traditions of Central Asia insulated rulers from established religious authority and promoted the objectification of cultural identities marked by language and faith, which created a mutual encouragement of cultural and political change. As religious and social hierarchies weakened, political centralization and militarization advanced. But in the spheres of religion and philosophy, iconoclasm enjoyed a new life. The changes cumulatively defined a threshold of the modern world, beyond which lay early nationalism, imperialism, and the novel divisions of Eurasia into “East” and “West.” Synthesizing new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, Crossley reveals the unique importance of Turkic and Mongol regimes in shaping Eurasia’s economic, technological, and political evolution toward our modern world.

Author : Farshid Emami
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096117

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Isfahan by Farshid Emami Pdf

Author : Jeroen Duindam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107060685

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Dynasties by Jeroen Duindam Pdf

A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.

Author : Vadim Rossman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317562849

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Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation by Vadim Rossman Pdf

The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries across the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes and drawing lessons from recent capital city transfers worldwide for governments and policy-makers. Capital Cities studies the approaches and the methodologies that inform such decisions and debates. Special attention is given to the study of the universal patterns of relocation and patterns specific to particular continents and mega-regions and particular political regimes. The study emphasizes the role of capital city transfers in the context of nation- and state-building and offers a new framework for thinking about capital cities, identifying six strategies that drive these decisions, representing the economic, political, geographic, cultural and security considerations. Confronting the popular hyper-critical attitudes towards new designed capital cities, Vadim Rossman shows the complex motives that underlie the proposals and the important role that new capitals might play in conflict resolution in the context of ethnic, religious and regional rivalries and federalist transformations of the state, and is seeking to identify the success and failure factors and more efficient implementation strategies. Drawing upon the insights from spatial economics, comparative federalist studies, urban planning and architectural criticism, the book also traces the evolution of the concept of the capital city, showing that the design, iconography and the location of the capital city play a critical role in the success and the viability of the state.

Author : Michal Biran,Hodong Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1916 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009301978

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The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volumes by Michal Biran,Hodong Kim Pdf

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and their nomadic culture at the center. Written by an international team of more than forty leading scholars, this two-volume set provides an authoritative and multifaceted history of 'the Mongol Moment' (1206–1368) in world history and includes an unprecedented survey of the various sources for its study, textual (written in sisteen languages), archaeological, and visual. This groundbreaking Cambridge History sets a new standard for future study of the Empire. It will serve as the fundamental reference work for those interested in Mongol, Eurasian, and world history.

Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482448

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In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire by David M. Robinson Pdf

Memories of the Mongol Empire loomed large in fourteenth-century Eurasia. Robinson explores how Ming China exploited these memories for its own purposes.

Author : Nancy Steinhardt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691240169

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Yuan by Nancy Steinhardt Pdf

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China The Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and stages. With a history enlivened by the likes of Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo, this spectacular empire spanned the breadth of China and far, far beyond, but its rulers were Mongols. Yuan presents the first comprehensive study in English of the architecture of China under Mongol rule. In this richly illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt looks at cities such as the legendary Shangdu—inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Xanadu—as well as the architecture the Mongols encountered on their routes of conquest. She examines the buildings and monuments of diverse faiths in China during the period, from Buddhist and Daoist to Confucian, Islamic, and Christian, as well as unusual structures such as observatories, archways, stone and metal buildings, and sarcophaguses. Steinhardt dispels long-standing views of the Mongols as destroyers of cities and architecture across Asia, showing how the khans and their families built more than they tore down. She demonstrates that the stipulations of the Chinese building system were powerful and resilient enough to guide the architecture that rose under Mongolian rule. Drawing on Steinhardt’s groundbreaking textual research in numerous languages as well as her pioneering fieldwork at sites across East Asia, Yuan will become the standard reference on this critical period of cultural and artistic exchange.