Syllabus - CHINGGIS KHAN AND HIS HEIRS: THE MONGOLS IN WORL (46557)

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CHINGGIS KHAN AND HIS HEIRS: THE MONGOLS IN WORLD HISTORY, BA Seminar, 2013-14

Professor Michal Biran
Classes and Reading Materials

1. Introduction: Orientation, Geography and Sources
D.O.Morgan, The Mongols (Oxford, 1986), 5-31.

Recommended:
M. Biran. "The Mongol Empire: The State of the Research", History Compass (2013): 1–13.

2. Pastoral Nomadism; Nomadic Empires Before the Rise of the Mongols.
א. חזנוב, "נוודי מרכז אסיה: עבר והווה: שיחה עם פרופ' אנטולי חזנוב", סביבות 19 (1987) , עמ' 18-52 בעיקר עמ' 22-25, 31-35.
Sima Qian,in B. Watson (trans.) Records of the Grand Historian of China (New York, 1961), vol. 2, pp.155-6 [DS748/s8 805673]
Morgan, The Mongols, 32-44

Recommended:
R. Amitai and M. Biran, "Introduction," in their edited volume, Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (Leiden, 2005), pp. 1-12.
A. Khazanov, Nomads and the Outside World (Madison Wisconsin, 1994), pp. 44-53.
Th. J. Barfield, The Nomadic Alternative (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993).

3. Asia on the Eve of the Rise of Chinggis Khan
Morgan, The Mongols, 44-54
Or
M. Biran , Chinggis Khan (Oxford, 2007), ch. 1

Section A : Political History
4. Chinggis Khan and the Rise of the Mongol Empire
Juwayni, in J.A. Boyle (tr.), The History of World Conqueror (Manchester, 1958), vol.1, 34-39. [DS22 J613/0159254].
Igor deRachewiltz (translated and annotated), The Secret History of the Mongols (Leiden, 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 1-16 (see also commentary pp. 221-340)
Morgan, The Mongols, 55-73; or Biran, Chinggis Khan, ch. 2

Recommended:
P. Rachnevsky, Genghis Khan (Oxford, 1991), 1-169
5. Chinggis Khan's Conquests: Between China and the Muslim World
Juwayni, 1: 77-81, 133-35.
The Secret History, ch.11, at least par. 254-255, pp. 181-188.
Biran, Chinggis Khan, ch. 2

6. The United Empire: Between Chinggis Khan and Qubilai Khan – Part A
J.Fletcher,”The Mongols: Ecological and Social Perspectives,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 46 (1986), 11-50. Rpt. In J. Fletcher, Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia (London, 1995)

Recommended:
T. Th. Allsen, “The Rise of the Mongolian Empire and Mongolian Rule in North China,” in H. Franke and D. Twitchett (eds.), The Cambridge History of China vol. 6 (Cambridge, 1994), 321-413.

7. The United Empire: Between Chinggis Khan and Qubilai Khan – Part B
וידיאו- סופה מהמזרח פרק 2
P. Jackson (tr. And ed.) with assistance of D. Morgan. The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck (London, 1990), 167-170. [DS707 R793 / 1068960].
John of Plano Carpini, in Ch. Dawson (ed.), The Mongol Mission (New York, 1955), 32-38. [Rpt. As Mission to Asia DS 707 M6/ 158979]

Recommended:
Th. T. Allsen, Mongol Imperialism (Berkeley, 1989).
P. Jackson, “The Dissolution of the Mongol Empire,” Central Asiatic Journal, Vol. 22 (1978), 186-244.

8. Qubilai Khan and the Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty
Morgan, The Mongols, 112-123
Rashid al-Din, The Successors of Genghis Khan, tr. J. A. Boyle (New York, 1971), 252-65; 273-78
Marco Polo, The Travels (ed. And trans Yule and Cordier, rpt New York, 1992),vol. 1 356-358, 362-66, 374-75.
Qubilai's proclamation of the Yuan dynasty in Langlois, "Introduction," in Idem (ed.), China under Mongol Rule (Princeton, 1981), p.2.

Recommended:
M. Rossabi, Khubilai Khan (Berkeley, 1988).

9. The Yuan After Qubilai: Between China and the Steppe
F. W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800 (Cambridge MA, 1998), 467-473.

Recommended:
John W. Dardess. Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China (New York, 1973).

10. The Yuan after Qubilai: The Mid-14th Century Crisis
F. W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800 (Cambridge MA, 1998), 517-541.

Recommended:
D. O. Robinson, Empire's Twilight (Cambridge MA, 2010).

11. The Ilkhans Part A: The Mongols in Iran – Hülegü, Baghdad and The
Establishment of the Ilkhanate
Morgan, The Mongols, 145-174
J. A. Boyle, “The Death of the Last Abbasid Caliph: A Contemporary Muslim Account,” JSS, 6 (1961), 151-161; rpt. in idem, The Mongol World Empire 1206-1370 (London, 1976) [DS 19 B69 86002] [Nasir al-Din Tusi]
B. Lewis (ed. and trans.), Islam (New York, 1974). Vol. 1, pp. 81-84. [Ibn al-Kathir]

Recommended:
Ch. Melville, "The Mongols in Iran," in L. Comaroff and S. Carboni (eds.), The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353 (New York and New Haven, 2003), 36-61.

12. The Ilkhanes Part B: The Later Ilkhans: From Ghazan's Reforms to the
Fall of the Ilkhanate
B. Spuler (ed. and trans.), History of the Mongols (Rpt. 1989), 144-53.
B. Fregner, “Iran under Ilkhanid Rule in a World History Perspective,”in D. Aigle (ed), L’Iran face a la domination mongo2le (Tehran, 1997), 120-130.

13. The Mongols in Central Asia : Qaidu and the House of Chagatai
Rashid al-Din, The Successors of Chinggis Khan (trans. J.A. Boyle, New York and London, 1971), 139-142
Marco Polo, Travels, 2: 457-465
M. Biran, "Central Asia from the Conquest of Chinggis Khan to the Rise of Tamerlane: The Ögodeied and Chaghadaid Realms," in N. Di Cosmo, P. B. Golden and A. Frank eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age (Cambridge, 2009), 44-66.

14. The Golden Horde: The Mongol State in Russia and its Legacy
Morgan, The Mongols, 141-145
Ch. J. Halperin, “Russia in the Mongol Empire in Comparative Perspective,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 43/1 (1983), 239-61

Recommended:
I. Vasary, "Jochi's inheritance: The Western Steppe and Eastern Europe," in N. Di Cosmo, P. B. Golden and A. Frank eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age (Cambridge, 2009), 67-85.
D. Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 (Cambridge, 1998).
Trubetskoi, N.S. “The Legacy of Chinggis Khan,” in his The Legacy of Chinggis Khan and Other Essays on Russia’s Identity (Ann Arbor, 1991).

15. The Mongols and Western Europe
Morgan, The Mongols, 175-198
A. W. Budge (trans.), The Monks of Kublai Khan (London, 1928), 166-197.

Recommended:
P. Jackson, “Medieval Christendom’s encounter with the alien,” Historical Research, 74 (2001), 347-369.
P. Jackson, The Mongols and the West (Harlow, 2005).

Section B: Thematic History
16. Religion: Between Tibetan Buddhism and Islam:
A. Tibetan Buddhism Under The Yuan Rule
S. Jagchid, “Why the Mongolian Khans Adopted Tibetan Buddhism as Their Faith," in his Mongolian Studies (Provo, 1988), 83-93.
Phags-pa Lama, Prince Jin-Jim's Textbook of Tibetan Buddhism, in M. Rossabi (comp.), The Mongols in Global History (NewYork and London, 2011), 144-148.

Recommended:
לידיה ארן, בודהיזם (תל-אביב, 1993), לפחות 153 -165.
H. Franke, "Tibetans in Yuan China," in J. D. Langlois, ed. China under Mongol Rule (Princeton, 1981), 296-328; Rpt. In H. Franke, China under Mongol Rule (2004)
H. Franke, "From Tribal Chieftain to Universal Emperor and God: The Legitimation of the Yuan Dynasty," in his book, China under Mongol Rule (Aldershot UK, 1994), art. IV, pp. 7-79.
D. P. Leidy, "Buddhism and Other Foreign Practices in Yuan China," in James C. Y. Watt (ed.), The World of Khubilai Khan (New Haven and London, 2010), 87-127.

17. Religion Part B: The Islamization of the Mongols; Islam in China under the
Yuan Rule
Devin DeWeese, "Islamization in the Mongol Empire," in N. Di Cosmo, P. B. Golden and A. Frank eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age (Cambridge, 2009), 120-134.
Dewin deWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde (Philadelphia, 1993), pp. 541-543.
B. Spuler (ed. and trans.), History of the Mongols , 144-46 (on Ghazan’s conversion)

Recommended:
M. Rossabi, "The Muslims in the Early Yuan Dynasty," in J. D. Langlois, ed. China under Mongol Rule (Princeton, 1981), 257-95.
מ. בירן, "האסלאם בח'אנות של צ'אגתאי: על התאסלמותו של הח'אן תרמשירין (1331-34), " בתוך
א. ליש ואחרים, עורכים, האסלאם: ספר זכרון לנחמיה לב ציון )ירושלים, 2012), 27-48.
Ch. Melville, “Padishah-i Islam: The Conversion of Ghazan to Islam,” Pembroke Papers, 1 (1990), 159-177.
R. Amitai-Preiss, “Sufis and Shamans: Some Remarks on the Islamization of the Mongols in the Ilkhanate.” JESHO 42 (1999), 27-46.
A.Khazanov, “The Spread of World Religions in the Medieval Nomadic Societies of the Eurasian Steppes,” in Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia , 1 (1994), 11-33.

18. Economy and Society Part A: The Old and the New Elites
Chen Yuan, Western and Central Asians in China under the Mongols: Their Transformation into Chinese (Rpt. Nettetal, 1989), 18-40.
F.W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800 (Cambridge, MA, 1999), 503-513

Recommended:
F. W. Mote, "Chinese Society under Mongol Rule, 1215-1368, " in H. Franke and D. Twitchett (eds.). The Cambridge History of China Vol. 6 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 627-664.
A. K. S. Lambton, Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia. London, 1988, pp. 297-326.

19. Economy and Society Part B: The Silk Roads – Economy and Trade Under
the Mongols
Pegolotti's Merchant Handbook, in http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/pegol.html
Th. T. Allsen, “Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples in the Mongol Empire,” Journal of Early Modern History, 1 (1997), 2-23.

Recommended:
Th. T. Allsen, Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire (Cambridge, 1997).
E. Endicott-West, "The Ortaqs in the Yuan dynasty," Asia Major, 2/2 (1989), pp. 128-154.
T. May, The Mongol Conquests in World History (London, 2012), 109-129.

20. The Mongol Army
Plano Carpini in Dawson, 32-38, 43-50.
T. May, The Mongol Conquests in World History (London, 2012), 130-157.

Recommended:
Ch. Melville, "The Kesig in Iran: The Survival of the Royal Mongol Household," in L. Komaroff (ed.), Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden, 2006), 135-64.

21. Culture and Art Part A: Drama, Art, Science, Philosophy
Kuan Han-ch'ing, "The Injustice Done to Tou Ngo," in Liu Jung-en (trans.), Six Yuan Plays (London, 1972), 115-158.
M. Rossabi, "Chinese Art under the Mongols," forthcoming in R. Amitai and M. Biran (eds), Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change.

Recommended:
Liu Jung-en, "Introduction," in his Six Yuan Plays (London, 1972), 7-35.

22. Culture and Art Part B: The Mongols and Cities
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, "The plan of Khubilai Khan's imperial city [Dadu]," Artibus Asiae , 44, nos.2/3 (1983), 137-154
Blair, S.S. “The Mongol Capital of Sultaniyya,” Iran 24 (1986), 135-151.

Recommended:

Zhixian Jason Sun, "Dadu, Great Capital of the Yuan Dynasty," in James C. Y. Watt, The World of Khubilai Khan (New Haven and London, 2010), 41-63.
M. Biran, "Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370)." In David Durand-Guedy, ed. Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 257-284.
Section C: Imperial Legacy

23. The Ming Dynasty: Successor or Antithesis?
D. Robinson, “The Ming Court and the Legacy of the Yuan Mongols,” in D. Robinson, ed., Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368-1644) (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 365-421.
E. L. Farmer, Zhu Yuanzhng and Early Ming Legislation (Leiden, 1995), 2

Recommended:
H. Serruys, The Mongols and Ming China (Collected articles, London, 1992).
E. Farmer,Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation (Leiden, 1995).
J. W. Dardess, “Did the Mongols Matter? Territory, Power and the Intelligencia in China from the Northern Song to the Early Ming,” in P. J. Smith and R. von Glahn, The Song-Yuan-Ming transition (Cambridge MA, 2003), 111-134.
P. J. Smith, "Impressions of the Song-Yuan-Ming transition: The Evidence from Biji Memoirs," in P. J. Smith and R. von Glahn, The Song-Yuan-Ming transition (Cambridge MA, 2003),71-111.

24. Tamerlane and the Timurids
D.O. Morgan, Medieval Persia (London & New York, 1988), pp. 88-104.
B.F. Manz, “Mongol History Rewritten and Relived.” Revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée, 89-90 (2000): 129-49.

25. Movie – Urga
26. The Moghuls in India
L. Balanlilar, “Lords of the Fortunate Conjunction: Turco-Mongol Imperial Identity on the Subcontinent,” Journal of World History, v. 18/1 (2007), pp. 1-39.

27. Qing as the Successor of the Mongols: The Role of Tibetan Buddhism
D.M. Farquhar, “The Origins of the Manchu’s Mongolian Policy,” in J.K. Fairbank (ed.), The Chinese World Order (Cambridge, Mass, 1968), 198-205.
F.W. Cleaves, “A Mongolian Rescript of the Fifth Year of Degedü Erdem-tü (1640), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 46/1 (1986), 186-7.
P. C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Cambridge MA, 2005), 122-27.

Recommended:
J. Elverskog, Our Great Qing (Hawaii, 2007).
H.Okada, “China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire,” in R.Amitai-Preiss and D. O. Morgan (eds.), The Mongol Empire and its Legacy (Leiden, 1999), 260-273.

28. Conclusion; The Chinggisid Legacy Today