Power, politics, and tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran / Michael Hope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hope, Michael (College teacher), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ilkhanid dynasty.

Social change.

History.

Relations.

Mongols--Politics and government.

Mongols.

Mongol Empire--Politics and government.

Mongols--Iran--History--To 1500.

Mongols--History--To 1500.

Iran--History--1256-1500.

Iran.

Iran--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Iran--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Iran--Relations.

Social change--Iran--History--To 1500.

Local Subjects:

Mongol Empire--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ikhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimate authority amongst his political successors.Yet Chinggis Khan's legacy was interpreted differently by the various factions within his army. In the years after his death, two distinct political traditions emerged within the Mongol Empire, the collegial and the patrimonialist. Each of these streams represented the economic and political interests of different groups within the Mongol Empire, respectively, the military aristocracy and the central government. The supporters of both streams claimed to adhere to the ideal of Chinggisid rule, but their different statuses within the Mongol community led them to hold divergent views of what constituted legitimate political authority.Michael Hope's study details the origin of, and the differences between, these two streams of tradition; analyzing the role that these streams played in the political development of the Mongol Empire and the ?lkh?nate; and assessing the role that ideological tension between the two streams played in the events leading up to the division of the Ilkhanate. Hope demonstrates that the policy and identity of both the Early Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate were defined by the conflict between these competing streams of Chinggisid authority." -- from publishers.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

The Sources 8

The Charismatic Authority of Chinggis Khan 22

2 The Problem of Succession (1227-59) 44

The Toluid Coup and the Patrimonial State 71

3 Hülegü and the Ilkhanate 91

Collegial Rule in the Early Ilkhanate (1265-84) 111

4 The Patrimonialist Revival and the Fight for Political Primacy (1284-1304) 135

Ghazan-The Messiah King 159

5 Amirate or Sultanate? The Chinggisid Legacy 182

6 Conclusion 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.

ISBN:

0198768591

9780198768593

OCLC:

944462843