From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia Peter Jackson

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• ISBN 10:0300275048
• ISBN 13:9780300275049
• Author: Peter Jackson

By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China’s Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia.

In this authoritative account, Peter Jackson traces Tamerlane’s rise to power against the backdrop of the decline of Mongol rule. Jackson argues that Tamerlane, a keen exponent of Mongol custom and tradition, operated in Genghis Khan’s shadow and took care to draw parallels between himself and his great precursor. But, as a Muslim, Tamerlane drew on Islamic traditions, and his waging of wars in the name of jihad, whether sincere or not, had a more powerful impact than those of any Muslim Mongol ruler before him.

Table contents:

1. Sources for the Mongol and Timurid Eras

Part I: The Mongols

2. The Mongol Empire: Unity, Expansion and Division, c. 1200–1335

3. Islamisation

4. The Crisis of the Mongol World: Chinggisid Rule on the Wane

5. The Crisis of the Mongol World: Economic Turbulence and Demographic Disaster

Part II: Greater Iran and Central Asia before Timur

6. Iran and Iraq after the Ilkhans

7. The Central Asian Mongols: Chaghatays, Mughūls and Qara’unas

8. Timur’s Forebears and the Elite of the Chaghadayid Realm

Part III: Tīmūr-I Lang

9. The Making of the Great Amir and a New Ruling Cadre

10. The Forging of an Empire: A Career of Conquest

11. The Forging of an Empire: The Function and Conduct of War

12. The Qarachu Warlord and the Imperial Chinggisids

13. Muslim Sultan and Holy Warrior: Faith, Propaganda and Posture

14. The Mongol Empire Resurrected?

15. Aftermath: Timur’s Successors

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