Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (Brill's Inner Asian Library)

The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world. List of Maps......Page 11 Preface......Page 13 List of Abbreviations......Page 15 Notes on Dates and Transliterations......Page 17 List of Contributors......Page 19 Introduction......Page 21 PART I EARLY CONTACTS......Page 33 Early Pastoral Societies of Northeast China: Local Change and Interregional Interaction during c. 1100–600 BCE (Gideon Shelach)......Page 35 Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of the “Sino-Barbarian” Dichotomy (Yuri Pines)......Page 79 Early Eurasian Nomads and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Eighth-Seventh Centuries BCE) (Askold I. Ivantchik)......Page 123 PART II THE PRE-MONGOL PERIOD......Page 147 What Nomads Want: Raids, Invasions and the Liao Conquest of 947 (Naomi Standen)......Page 149 True to Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai Did Not Convert to Islam (Michal Biran)......Page 195 The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in Medieval Arabic Writing (Yehoshua Frenkel)......Page 221 PART III THE MONGOL EMPIRE AND ITS SUCCESSORS......Page 263 The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered (Peter Jackson)......Page 265 The “Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan” Revisited (David Morgan)......Page 311 A Reappraisal of Güyüg Khan (Hodong Kim)......Page 329 War and Peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312–1323) (Liu Yingsheng)......Page 359 The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War (Reuven Amitai)......Page 379 Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Convergences and Conflicts (Nicola Di Cosmo)......Page 411 Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military (Beatrice Forbes Manz)......Page 445 PART IV INTO THE MODERN PERIOD......Page 479 The Mongols and China: Cultural Contacts and the Changing Nature of Pastoral Nomadism (Twelfth to Early Twentieth Centuries) (Elizabeth Endicott)......Page 481 Russia and the Eurasian Steppe Nomads: An Overview (Moshe Gammer)......Page 503 Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia (Anatoly M. Khazanov and Kenneth H. Shapiro)......Page 523 Index......Page 555 The Interaction Between Eurasian Pastoral Nomads And The Surrounding Sedentary Societies Is A Major Theme In World History. This Volume Explores The Mulitfarious Nature Of Nomadic Society And Its Relations With China, Russia And The Middle East From Antiquity Into The Contemporary World With Emphasis On The Mongol And Turkish Peoples.