Governing Eurasia: Mongol Innovations and Adaptations

1. General:

Thomas T. Allsen, “Technologies of Governance in the Mongolian Empire: A Geographic Overview”, in D. Sneath (ed.), Imperial Statecraft: Political Forms and Techniques of Governance in Inner Asia, Sixth­Twentieth Centuries (Western Washington University, 2006), pp. 117‐40.

Timothy May, The Mongol Conquests in World History (London, 2012), ch. 6.

Charles Melville, “The Keshig in Iran: The Survival of the Royal Mongol Household”, in L. Komaroff (ed.), Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden, 2006), pp. 135‐65.

Paul Buell, “Sino‐Khitan Administration in Mongol Bukhara”, Journal of Asian History 13 (1979), pp. 121‐51.

David Morgan, “Who Ran the Mongol Empire?”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1982, pp. 124‐36: corrected in Morgan, “Mongol or Persian: The Government of Ilkhanid Iran”, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 3, 1/2 (1996), pp. 62‐76.

2. The Yam

David Morgan, “Reflections on Mongol Communications in the Ilkhanate”, in C. Hillenbrand (ed.), Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth Volume II: The Sultan’s Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture (Leiden, 2000), pp. 375‐85.

Adam J. Silverstein, Postal Systems in the Pre­Modern Islamic World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, ch. 4, “The Mongol Yam and its Legacy”. On this see T.T. Allsen, “Imperial Posts, West, East and North: A Review Article”, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 17 (2010), pp. 237‐80.

3. Taxation

Ann K.S. Lambton, “Mongol Fiscal Administration in Persia”, 2 parts, Studia Islamica 64‐5 (1986‐7), pp. 79‐99, 97‐123.

John M. Smith Jr., “Mongol and Nomadic Taxation”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 30 (1970), pp. 46‐85.

4. Law

Peter Jackson, “Yasa”, Encyclopaedia Iranica.

Igor de Rachewiltz, “Some Reflections on Činggis Qan’s Jasaγ”, East Asian History 6 (Dec 1996), pp. 91‐104.

David Morgan, “The Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan Revisited”, in R. Amitai & M. Biran (eds), Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (Leiden, 2005), pp. 291‐308.

Robert D. McChesney, Central Asia: Foundations of Change, (Princeton, 1996), ch. 4.

Persian Renaissance under the Mongols

Denise Aigle (ed.), L’Iran face à la domination mongole (Tehran, 1997)

Reuven Amitai, The Mongols in the Islamic Lands. Studies in the History of the Ilkhanate (Aldershot, 2007)

Reuven Amitai‐Preiss and David O. Morgan (eds), The Mongol Empire and its Legacy (Leiden, 1999)

Jean Aubin, Émirs mongols et vizirs persans dans les remous de l’acculturation (Paris, 1995)

Robert Hillenbrand, A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva (eds), Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran (London and New York, 2013).

Linda Komaroff (ed.), Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden, 2006)

Dorothea Krawulsky, The Mongol Ilkhans and their Vizier Rashid al­Din (Frankfurt am Main, 2011)

Ann K.S. Lambton, Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia. Aspects of Administrative, Economic and Social History, 11th – 14th Century (New York and London, 1988)

George Lane, Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth­Century Iran. A Persian Renaissance (London, 2003)

Charles Melville, “Padshah­i Islam: the Conversion of Sultan Mahmud Ghazan Khan”, in Melville (ed.), Pembroke Papers I. Persian and Islamic Studies in Honour of P.W. Avery (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 159‐77.

Charles Melville, The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327­37: a Decade of discord in Mongol Iran (Bloomington, 1999)

Julian Raby and Teresa Fitzherbert (eds), The Court of the Il­khans 1290­1340 (Oxford, 1996)

A.A. Seyed‐Gorhab and S. McGlinn (eds), The Treasury of Tabriz. The Great Il­Khanid Compendium (Amsterdam, 2007)