FROM GENGHIS KHAN TO TAMERLANE : the reawakening of mongol asia

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia. In this authoritative account, Peter Jackson traces Tamerlane's rise to power against the backdrop of the decline of Mongol rule. Jackson argues that Tamerlane, a keen exponent of Mongol custom and tradition, operated in Genghis Khan's shadow and took care to draw parallels between himself and his great precursor. But, as a Muslim, Tamerlane drew on Islamic traditions, and his waging of wars in the name of jihad, whether sincere or not, had a more powerful impact than those of any Muslim Mongol ruler before him. -- The Mongol empire : unity, expansion and division, c. 1200-1335 -- Islamisation -- The crisis of the Mongol world : Chinggisid rule on the wane -- The crisis of the Mongol world : economics turbulence and demographic disaster -- Iran and Iraq after the Ilkhans -- The central Asian Mongols : Chaghatays, Mughuls and Qara'unas -- Timur's forebears and the elite of the Chaghadayid realm -- The making of the great Amir and a new ruling cadre -- The forging of an empire : a career of conquest -- The forging of an empire : the function and conduct of war -- The Qarachu warlord and the imperial Chinggisids -- Muslim sultan and holy warrior : faith, propaganda and posture -- The Mongol empire resurrected? -- Timur's successors.