Download PDF | Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life, by David Durand-Guédy (Author), Brill, 2013.
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Preface
This book originated in the international conference “Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life in Iran and the Neighboring Countries” held at the University of Tokyo on 12-13 September 2009. The conference was the result of the conjunction between a project and an opportunity. In 2007, I embarked on a research project called “Ruling from the Outside: Turkish Rulers and City Life in pre-Mongol Iran”. It was based on one of the findings of my earlier research on Saljuq Isfahan: that the sultans did not live inside their capital, but stayed in a camp set up on its perimeter or in a much more remote location. The Saljuqs’ way of life seemed to have had a lot more in common with that of later Mongol and Turko-Mongol rulers but needed to be fully investigated. In 2008, I joined the third phase of the Collaborative Research Centre “Difference and Integration” (Sonderforschungsbereich, or SFB, 586) dedicated to the study of the relationship between nomads and sedentary people.
At the same time I was also granted a fellowship by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to spend a year at the Tobunken (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, former Institute of Oriental Culture), at the University of Tokyo. Taking advantage of this institutional configuration, I suggested to Jürgen Paul, then speaker of the SFB, and Kazuo Morimoto, my host in Tokyo, that they organize a joint seminar on the attitude of Turko-Mongol rulers in general toward cities and city life. The Japanese connection was quite justified by the long-standing Japanese interest in the history of the Turks and the Mongols and also because pioneering research published in Japanese (by Honda, for example, and by some of the contributors to this volume) remained inaccessible to the wider academic world. In September 2009, a conference was organized at the Tobunken as a joint seminar between this institution and the Collaborative Research Centre “Difference and Integration”.
We were fortunate to have the additional support of the IAS Center at the University of Tokyo (TIAS)/NIHU Program Islamic Area Studies as well as the JSPS (through the cooperation agreement it has with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). None of this would have been possible without Kazuo Morimoto. I thank him for the time and effort he gave to make it possible for this event to take place in ideal conditions. I would also like to thank Masashi Haneda (director of the Tobunken) and Hisao Komatsu (director of TIAS) for their valuable support. Yukako Goto, Hiroyuki Mashita, Dai Matsui and Kazuhiro Shimizu kindly agreed to serve as chairs and Professor Masami Hamada as general discussant. I seize this opportunity, too, to extend my thanks to Yoichi Isahaya, Satoru Kimura, Ryo Mizukami and Asuka Tsuji for their technical help during the conference. The publication of the proceedings has been funded by the Collaborative Research Centre “Difference and Integration”, funded in turn by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Devin Deweese, who happened to be in Tokyo shortly after the conference, immediately agreed to the idea of including the proceedings as a volume in Brill’s Inner Asian Library.
I thank him for his permanent support and trust throughout the long editing process. I am deeply indebted to Jürgen Paul for the help he gave me when I was editing the articles, and especially for giving me the benefit of his unique expertise on Inner Asia. I would also like to express my gratitude to the many colleagues who have responded to my requests: Thomas Allsen, Reuven Amitai, Jan Bemmann, Michal Biran, Devin DeWeese, Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, Jean-Claude Garcin, Peter Golden, Dai Matsui, Kazuo Morimoto and Andrew Peacock. I thank them all for their time, their feedback and their advice. I am grateful for the assistance of Piet Collet with drawing the maps I or the contributors commissioned (chapters 1, 4, 6, 11 and 8, 9, 10 respectively), and of Carol Rowe during the long copy-editing process and of Daniel Haas for preparing the indices. I thank them all for their fine work. Finally, I am very grateful to Patricia Radder at Brill for her availability and support.
Notes on contributors
Michal Biran, PhD 2000 (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), is an Associate Professor at the departments of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University. She is a historian of Inner Asia and author of, among others, Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia (Routledge, 1997); The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Chinggis Khan (Oneworld, 2007). She is currently running a project funded by the European Research Council entitled “Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia” and is working on book projects on The Cultural History of Ilkhanid Baghdad, and Central Asia under Mongol Rule. Together with Hodong
David Durand-Guédy, PhD 2004 (Aix-en-Provence University), is a former Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Difference and Integration’, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He is an historian specializing in eleventh-twelfth-century Iran and has published Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūq Period (Routledge, 2010). His other publications relevant to this volume include “Ruling from the Outside: A New Perspective on Early Turkish Kingship in Iran”, in L. Mitchell and C. Melville, eds, Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Brill, 2012).
Kurt Franz, PhD 2002 (Hamburg University), is Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut and a former project director at the Collaborative Research Centre “Difference and Integration” (SFB 586). His research interests include popular movements and political organisation in the Islamic Middle East, nomadic-sedentary relations, labour and slavery, and Geographic Information Systems. Publications relevant to this volume comprise Vom Beutezug zur Territorialherrschaft (Reichert, 2007) and “The Bedouin in History or Bedouin History?” (Nomadic Peoples, n.s., 15(1), 2011). He is presently co-editing Nomadic Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas (Reichert, in press) and Plagues in Nomadic Contexts (Brill, in press) and prepares an atlas of the Bedouin under the Ayyubid and Mamluk sultanates.
Peter B. Golden, PhD 1970 (Columbia University), is Professor II Emeritus of History, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. His primary fields of interest are the history of the nomads of medieval Eurasia, and the Turkic world and its relations with Rus’, Byzantium, the Caucasus, pre-Islamic Iran and the Islamic lands. Recent publications include Türk Halkları Tarihine Giriş (Ötüken, 3rd printing, 2012), Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes (Florilegium, 2011), Central Asia in World History (Oxford University Press, 2011), Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia (Variorum, 2010). He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and is currently preparing a second, revised edition of An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (Harrassowitz, 1992).
Minoru Inaba, MA 1985 (Kyoto University), is Professor of History of the Orient at Kyoto University. He specializes in the history of pre-Islamic and early Islamic Afghanistan. His publications relevant to this volume include “The Identity of the Turkish Rulers to the South of the Hindukush from the 7th to the 9th Centuries, A.D” (Zinbun 36, 2005).
Yury Karev, PhD 1999 (Moscow State University and EPHE, Paris), is Research Associate at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-ENS, UMR 8546). He is an archaeologist, specialising in early Islamic cities in Khurasan and Transoxania, but also works on the social and political history of pre-Mongol Central Asia. As a member of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission in Samarqand since 1990, he was in charge of the excavations on the lower terrace of the citadel of Afrasiab site. He has published several relevant articles, including “Qarākhānid Wall Paintings in the Citadel of Samarqand: First Report and Preliminary Observations” (Muqarnas 22, 2005).
Nobuaki Kondo, PhD 1997 (The University of Tokyo), is Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is an historian and has published in English and Japanese on Iran during the Qajar period. He has also edited the collective volume, Persian Documents: Social History of Iran and Turan in the 15th-19th Centuries (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), and is now preparing a monograph on the social history of Qajar Tehran.
Tomoko Masuya, PhD 1997 (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia of the University of Tokyo. She has published many articles on Islamic art of the Ilkhanid and Timurid period. Her publications relevant to this volume include “Ilkhanid Courtly Life”, in L. Komaroff and S. Carboni, eds, The Legacy of Genghis Khan (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2002).
Charles Melville, PhD 1978 (University of Cambridge), is Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His main research interests are the history and historiography of Iran in the Mongol to Safavid periods, and the illustration of Persian manuscripts, especially the Shahnama. His publications relevant to this volume include “The Itineraries of Sultan Öljeitü, 1304-16” (Iran 28, 1990) and “From Qars to Qandahar: The Itineraries of Shah ‘Abbas I (995-1038/1587-1629”, in J. Calmard, ed., Etudes safavides (IFRI, 1993). He is currently working on the illustration of mediaeval Persian history.
Jürgen Paul, PhD 1989 (Hamburg University), is Professor of Islamic Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He was also co-speaker of the Collaborative Research Program “Differenz und Integration” (SFB 586) in 2008-2012. His main research interest is the political and social history of eastern Iran and Central Asia (11th-15th centuries), on which he has published extensively, including recently Zentralasien (Fischer, 2012), “Khalīl Sulṭān and the Westerners (1405-7)” (Turcica 42, 2010), “Zerfall und Bestehen: Die Ǧaʾun-i qurban im 14. Jahrhundert” (Asiatische Studien 65, 2011) and “Mongol Aristocrats and Beyliks in Anatolia: A Study of Astarābādī’s Bazm va Razm” (Eurasian Studies 9, 2011).
Andrew Peacock, PhD 2003 (Cambridge University), is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include the history of Islamic societies in Anatolia, Iran, Iraq and Central Asia in the mediaeval period and Arabic and Persian historiography. Principal publications related to the theme of this book include Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (Routledge, 2010) and the co-edited volume (with Sara Nur Yıldız) The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2013), as well as a number of articles. He is Principal Investigator of a major research project funded by the European Research Council, “The Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1100-1500”.
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