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Ilkhanid Capital Cities: Transcultural Interactions

Ilkhanid Capital Cities: Transcultural Interactions

Hatef Naiemi, Atri

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryCentral Asian HistoryIran History

ISBN10: 139951038X
ISBN13: 9781399510387
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 31 2025
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (1256-1335). It primarily focuses on two major cities in the northwest of Iran, Ghazaniyya and Sultaniyya, and examines how the court-sponsored urban projects in these two cities reflected the interactions between Perso-Islamic sedentary concepts and Mongolian nomadic traditions.

Questioning the earlier reductive scholarly framework that positioned the Mongols as uncultured barbarians, this study stresses the active role of the Mongol elite not only as agents, but also cultural donors in the Perso-Mongol cultural zeitgeist of late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Iran. It provides a fuller and more convincing picture of the Ilkhanid city, which is characterized by a hybrid quality injected not only into the physical structure of the city, but also into the taste, motivations and world views of its patrons.

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