The Empire of Tamerlane as an Adaptation of the Mongol Empire: An answer to David Morgan, 'The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the Mongol State?'
| Autor: | Beatrice Forbes Manz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
060101 anthropology History Middle East Poetry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences History of Islam 0507 social and economic geography Empire 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Pleasure Friendship Scholarship State (polity) 0601 history and archaeology Classics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 26:281-291 |
| ISSN: | 1474-0591 1356-1863 |
| Popis: | I write this article in the spirit of the Persian poetic tradition, in which an answer to an earlier work takes off from the original and charts its own course. I will suggest that Tamerlane's recreation of the Mongol Empire was symbolic, and was part of his successful creation of a regional state which was at once Turco-Mongolian and Perso-Islamic. His experiment was continued and elaborated by his successors, and the resulting state provided a highly useful model for later dynasties in the Middle East and Central Asia.Through my long engagement with Mongols and Turks, David Morgan's influence and aid have been a constant advantage and his friendship a recurring pleasure. Our acquaintance began in 1987 with a kind letter he sent me after reading the manuscript forThe Rise and Rule of Tamerlanefor the Cambridge University Press. Since then I have profited from his scholarship, have used his two books to teach generations of students, and have called on him for uncountable letters of recommendation, always generously given. I also want to thank David for asking me to write the Mongol chapter for theNew Cambridge History of Islam, and thus attracting me into the Mongol period. It may seem odd to express my gratitude by writing an answer to David's article which is not entirely in agreement with his conclusions. I trust in the well-known openness of his mind and assume that he will take this in the spirit in which it is offered, as the continuation of many years of discussion. |
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