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Pow concluded that there were strong similarities of structure and purpose with Jack Weatherford's 2004 book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. [12] Francis P. Sempa praised Favereau's "nuanced and comprehensive history" which, unusually, presented the Mongol Empire as "administratively complex". [13]
David O. Morgan (1945–2019) was a British historian who was professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [1] His book The Mongols is considered a standard in the field. [2] Originally published in 1986, a new expanded edition was published in 2007. [3]
In fact, the author points out that Mongols were quite offended by such a label: they vanquished Tatars in several campaigns around 1206, after which the Tartars ceased to exist as an independent ethnic group. The report gives a narrative of his journey, what he had learned about Mongol history, as well as Mongol customs of the time.
Initially, the work was intended only to set out the history of the Mongols and their predecessors on the steppes, and took the name Taʾrīkh-ī Ghazānī, which makes up one part of the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh. To compile the History, Rashid al-Din set up an entire precinct at the university of Rab'-e Rashidi in the capital of Tabriz.
Volume I "contains the history of the Turkish and Mongol tribes, including their tribal legends, genealogies, myths and the history of the Mongol conquests from the time of Genghis Khan to the end of the reign of Ghazan Khan", [6] while volume II describes "the history of all the peoples with whom the Mongols had fought or with whom they had ...
The cover of The Secret History of the Mongol Great Khatuns in Mongolian 2009. Following Ögedei's death, khatuns (queens) briefly ruled the Mongol Empire. Most of these women were not Genghis Khan's daughters, but his daughters- or granddaughters-in-law. Their ability to control the empire made them the most powerful women during this period.
Hulegu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulagu [n 1] (c. 1217 – 8 February 1265), was a Mongol ruler who conquered much of Western Asia.As a son of Tolui and the Keraite princess Sorghaghtani Beki, he was a grandson of Genghis Khan and brother of Ariq Böke, Möngke Khan, and Kublai Khan.
The common name of the work as it is referred to today is The Secret History of the Mongols, corresponding to the edited work compiled in the late 1300s with the Chinese title Secret History of the Yuan (元秘史; Yuán mìshǐ) and the Mongolian title Mongɣol-un niɣuča tobčiyan, re-transcribed from Chinese (忙豁侖紐察脫卜察安 ...