Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds

What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world?

Anne F. Broadbridge (Author)

9780521852654, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 January 2008

250 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.54 kg

'This is a very well-documented work of synthesis, offering an exhaustive view of the various embassies mentioned in the Arabic and Persian sources.' Central Eurasian Reader

What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world? Anne Broadbridge examines struggles over ideology in the Middle East and Central Asia from 1260 to 1405. She explores two very different ideological worlds: the Islamic world of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria, and the Mongol world inhabited by the Golden Horde in Central Asia, the Ilkhanids in Iran and Anatolia, the Ilkhanids' successors, and Temür. The relationships among these rival rulers were often highly charged, and diplomatic missions were exchanged in an effort to promote each ruler's ideology. This was the first book to explore what it meant to be a monarch in the pre-modern Islamic world, and how ideas about sovereignty evolved across the period. This groundbreaking work will appeal to scholars of Middle Eastern and Central Asian history, Mongol history, and Islamic history, as well as historians of diplomacy and ideology.

Introduction
1. The ideology and the diplomacy
2. The establishment of ideologies (1260–1293/ 658–93)
3. The age of Ilkhanid conversion (1295–1316/694–716)
4. The age of patronage and Muslim supremacy (1317–41/717–41)
5. Mamluk regional sovereignty and the post-Ilkhanid order (1335–82/736–84)
6. The Temürid invasions and the destruction of Mamluk sovereignty (1382–1404/784–807)
Epilogue
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Islamic studies [JFSR2], Islam [HRH], Middle Eastern history [HBJF1], History [HB]