IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 615: Chinggisid Ripples, II: Historiography and Rhetoric of Rule across Mongol Eurasia

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Organisers:	Geoffrey Humble, Department of History, University of Birmingham Márton Vér, Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Moderator/Chair:	Márton Vér, Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Paper 615-a	Toluid Framing and Islamicate Truth Claims in the Tarikh-i Jahangusha (Language: English) Jan Jelinowski, Groupe d'Études Orientales, Slaves et Néo-helléniques (GEO), Université de Strasbourg / Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other
Paper 615-b	When Did the Mongol Era Start?: Interpreting the Rise of Chinggis Khan through Chronological Calculation (Language: English) Qiao Yang, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought, Science
Abstract	The Chinggisid imperial project saw the extension, movement and translation of both political frameworks and peoples over huge distances. This session interrogates the selective employment of intellectual and political frameworks to define and reinforce imperial authority. Jan Jelinowski illustrates the deployment of Perso-Islamicate historiographical tools to serve the Toluid imperial house, with a focus on Juwayni's Tarikh-i Jahangusha. Qiao Yang interrogates the polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi's use of Chinese, Greek, Persian and Hijri calendrical frameworks to demonstrate the cosmic significance of Chinggis Qan's birth.