History and historiography of post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: studies in honor of John E. Woods/
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Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Judith Pfeiffer & Sholeh A. Quinn
- The Mongol world empire
- world-conquest and local accommodation: threat and blandishment in Mongol diplomacy Peter Jackson
- "Stuck in the throat of Chingiz Khan:" envisioning the Mongol conquests in some Sufi accounts from the 14th to 17th centuries Devin de Weese
- The Qongrat in history Isenbike Togan
- References to economic and cultural life in Anatolia in the letters of Rashid al-Din Zeki Velidi Togan, trans. Gery Leiser
- Autonomous enclaves in Islamic states: temliks, soyurghals, yurdluk-ocakliks, malikane-mukataas and awqaf Halil Inalcik
- The early Persian historiography of Anatolia Charles Melville
- Ahmad Teguder's second letter to Qala'un (682/1283) Judith Pfeiffer
- The age of Timur
- A note on the life and works of Ibn Arabshah R. D. McChesney
- On the Persian original Validiyya of Khvaja Ahrar Eiji Mano
- Local histories of Southern Iran Beatrice Forbes Manz
- Shahidi Qumi: poet laureate of the Aqquyunlu court Paul E. Losensky
- The Safavids and their legacy A "new" edition of Safvat al-safa Michel M. Mazzaoui
- Coronation narratives in Safavid Chronicles Sholeh A. Quinn
- Seeking a world empire: Nadir Shah in Timur's path Ernest Tucker
- Mujassama-i bud mujassama-i nabud: the image of the Safavids in 20th century Iranian popular historiography Camron Michael Amin
- Mamluk studies
- Apostasy trials in eighth/fourteenth century Egypt and Syria: a case study Anne F. Broadbridge
- Reading Adab in historical light: factuality and ambiguity in Ibn Daniyal's "Occasional verses" on Mamluk society and politics Li Guo
- Celebrating the Mahmal: the Rajab Festival in fifteenth century Cairo John Meloy
- Mansa Musa's gold in Mamluk Cairo: a reappraisal of a world civilizations anecdote Warren Schultz
- Historical geography
- Damandan = Tamandan (Kirman - Makran/Taftan - Damandan) Araj Afshar
- A closer definition of geographical names in the Secret history of the Mongols D. Bazargur & D. Enkhbayar
- Inter-regional contacts and cross-cultural transmission
- The Han-Lin Academy and the Persian Royal Library-Atelier Abolala Soudavar
- When hell is other people: a Safavid view of seventeenth-century Mughal India Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- Cross-cultural contacts in Eurasia: persianate art in Ottoman Istanbul Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr
- Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, Abu Yusuf, and the concept of Islamic civilization Douglas E. Streusand.