Persian World Histories in the Mongol Era
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global history
Ilkhanid
Islamic history
Islamic intellectual history
Islamic manuscripts
manuscript studies
medieval history
Medieval Islam
medieval Middle East
Mongol history
Mughal
Persian historiography
Persian manuscripts
Rashid al-Din
Timurid
world history
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- ISBN 9781399552349
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of essays brings together codicological, historiographical and art-historical studies of Medieval Persian history manuscripts. The main subject is Rash?d al-D?n's J?mi? al-tav?r?kh (Compendium of Chronicles). Considered the first 'world history', it was originally written in Persian in the early fourteenth century, when vast areas of the Eurasian continent were under Mongol rule. There is also a particular focus on Persian manuscripts preserved in India, which have heretofore been largely ignored. Though developed and sophisticated, Japanese studies on the J?mi? al-tav?r?kh remain mostly unknown outside of Japan due to the language barrier. In this volume, Japanese scholars offer their East Asian perspective on this and other West Asian histories for the first time in English, using not only Persian but also Chinese and Sanskrit sources.
Through a comparative analysis of a number of manuscripts, the volume tackles various questions concerning the production of texts during the Ilkhanid and Timurid periods. It reveals valuable clues regarding the sources used in historical writings, the process of writing, revising and illustrating the manuscripts, and the production of copies and recensions in the Persianate realms under Mongol rule.
Tomoko Masuya is Professor of Islamic Art History at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at The University of Tokyo. Her research covers Islamic art produced in the vast area from Islamic Spain to Central Asia. She is the author of several books in Japanese and numerous book chapters and articles in both Japanese and English, most recently 'Archaeological Sources: The Ilkhanate' in Biran & Hodong (eds), The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Osamu Otsuka is Associate Professor of Asian and African History at The University of Tokyo. He is the author of numerous books, chapter and articles in Japanese and English, including a jointly authored chapter, The Dustur a'l-Munajjimin as a Source of Early Ismaili History', in Orthmann & Schmidl (eds), Sciences in the City of Fortune: The Dustur al-Munajjimin and Its World (EB-Verlag, 2017) and articles in Journal of Persianate Studies, Studia Iranica, The Journal of Oriental Researchers and Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. Masatomo Kawamoto is Professor of West Asian History at Nara University. His numerous publications include articles in Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies, The Journal of Oriental Researches, Orient and Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan.
