Peter Jackson. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion.
2018; Oxford University Press; Volume: 123; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ahr/rhy047
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
ResumoPeter Jackson’s The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion is a distinguished summation of a career spent researching the eastern reaches of the Islamic world and the western reaches of the Mongol empires. Jackson evinces the effortless erudition and casual wit that seems the enviable prerogative of English scholarship. The Mongol empire is a colossal topic in the midst of a boom in scholarship; the current work has taken twelve years and over six hundred pages to complete. The book has thirteen chapters. After a first chapter on the medieval authors, the second chapter covers the legacy of Inner Asian interaction with the Islamic world. Chapters 3 and 5 cover the early conquests and Hülegü’s conquests, respectively, while chapter 4 discusses the government of the unified empire. Chapter 6 considers the impact of the conquests, while chapter 7 traces the ensuing conflicts between the Mongol successor states from the breakup in 1260 onward. Chapter 8 then assesses the idea of Pax Mongolica and the Mongol role in intercultural exchange. Chapters 9 through 13 are the core of the book, in which Jackson shows how Muslim rulers and elites reacted to being under Mongol rule. The chapters focus on Muslim client kings under Mongol rule (chap. 9), Muslim bureaucrats, some of whom were also historians (chap. 10), the policy dilemmas attendant on Mongol rule (chap. 11), the process of conversion (chap. 12), and how Mongol dynasts succeeded or failed in ruling as Muslims (chap. 13). An epilogue then sums up.
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