The Jalayirids
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 pos...
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Edinburgh Univ Pr,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations for primary and secondary source texts
- Introduction and sources for the history of the Jalayirids
- tribes and the Chinggisid Empire
- The Jalayirs and the Early Ilkhanate
- From tribal Amirs to royal in-laws
- Crisis and transition (1335-56)
- Shaykh Uvays and the Jalayirid dynasty
- Dynastic ideology during the reign of Shaykh Uvays
- Challenges to the Jalayirid Order
- conclusions and the legacy of the Jalayirids
- maps and genealogical chart.
The Jalayirids