The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East

by Patrick Wing

Overview

This book traces the origins, history, and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty, a family that succeeded the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran and Iraq in the 14th and early 15th centuries. The story of how the Jalayirids came to power is illustrative of the political dynamics that shaped much of the Mongol and post-Mongol period in the Middle East. The Jalayirid sultans sought to preserve the social and political order of the Ilkhanate, while claiming that they were the rightful heirs to the rulership of that order. Central to the Jalayirids' claims to the legacy of the Ilkhanate was their attempt to control the Ilkhanid heartland of Azarbayjan and its major city, Tabriz. Control of Azarbayjan meant control of a network of long-distance trade between China and the Latin West, which continued to be a source of economic prosperity through the 8th/14th century. Azarbayjan also represented the center of Ilkhanid court life, whether in the migration of the mobile court-camp of the ruler, or in the complexes of palatial, religious and civic buildings constructed around the city of Tabriz by members of the Ilkhanid royal family, as well as by members of the military and administrative elite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474426374
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Patrick Wing is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Redlands. His research focuses on the history of the Middle East in the period of the Mongols and their successors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations for Primary and Secondary Source Texts
Chapter 1. Introduction and Sources for the History of the Jalayirids
Chapter 2. Tribes and the Chinggisid Empire
Chapter 3. The Jalayirs and the Early Ilkhanate
Chapter 4. From Tribal Amirs to Royal In-Laws
Chapter 5. Crisis and Transition (1335-1356)
Chapter 6. Shaykh Uvays and the Jalayirid Dynasty
Chapter 7. Dynastic Ideology during the Reign of Shaykh Uvays
Chapter 8. Challenges to the Jalayirid Order
Chapter 9. Conclusions and the Legacy of the Jalayirids
Maps
Genealogy of the Jalayirid Dynasty
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

This book is the first significant study in English of one of the major powers in Iran and Anatolia during the decades following the collapse of Mongol rule there after 1335. It sheds a flood of light not only on that, but on many aspects of the earlier period of Mongol rule.

University of Wisconsin-Madison David Morgan

This book is the first significant study in English of one of the major powers in Iran and Anatolia during the decades following the collapse of Mongol rule there after 1335. It sheds a flood of light not only on that, but on many aspects of the earlier period of Mongol rule.

David Morgan

This book is the first significant study in English of one of the major powers in Iran and Anatolia during the decades following the collapse of Mongol rule there after 1335. It sheds a flood of light not only on that, but on many aspects of the earlier period of Mongol rule.

Editorial Reviews

"The book provides an admirably clear narrative of major political developments, all the more admirable because Wing has had to do so much of the groundwork in building this narrative from a range of sources in different languages and genres...[the volume]will be the indispensable starting point for future research." — Harry Munt, University of York, AL-MASAQ

"The Jalayirids makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the Mongol-Timurid period. Moreover, the chronologically ordered chapters make it easy for the reader to follow the narrative of the Jalayirid dynasty's rise and fall, which is no mean feat considering the complexity of the post-Ilkhanid political landscape of Iran. Yet Wing does not sacrifice any academic rigour to make his book more accessible and his monograph will no doubt be useful for specialists as well as graduate students interested in this chapter of Eurasian history." — Michael Hope, Yonsei University, Mongolian Studies; The Journal of the Mongolia Society

From the Publisher

This book is the first significant study in English of one of the major powers in Iran and Anatolia during the decades following the collapse of Mongol rule there after 1335. It sheds a flood of light not only on that, but on many aspects of the earlier period of Mongol rule.

University of Wisconsin-Madison David Morgan

This book is the first significant study in English of one of the major powers in Iran and Anatolia during the decades following the collapse of Mongol rule there after 1335. It sheds a flood of light not only on that, but on many aspects of the earlier period of Mongol rule.

David Morgan

The book provides an admirably clear narrative of major political developments, all the more admirable because Wing has had to do so much of the groundwork in building this narrative from a range of sources in different languages and genres...[the volume]will be the indispensable starting point for future research.

AL-MASĀQ - Harry Munt

The Jalayirids makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the Mongol-Timurid period. Moreover, the chronologically ordered chapters make it easy for the reader to follow the narrative of the Jalayirid dynasty’s rise and fall, which is no mean feat considering the complexity of the post-Ilkhanid political landscape of Iran. Yet Wing does not sacrifice any academic rigour to make his book more accessible and his monograph will no doubt be useful for specialists as well as graduate students interested in this chapter of Eurasian history.

Mongolian Studies; The Journal of the Mongolia Society - Michael Hope