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The author examines how ideology played a role in the relationships between different monarchs in the Islamic world. She focuses on the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria and the Mongol Empire of Central Asia. She finds that the relationships between these monarchs were often highly charged, and that diplomatic missions were exchanged in an effort to promote each ruler's ideology. This book is a groundbreaking work that will appeal to scholars of Middle Eastern and Central Asian history, Mongol history, and Islamic history.
What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world? Anne Broadbridge examines struggles over ideology in the Middle East and Central Asia from 1260 to 1405. She explores two very different ideological worlds: the Islamic world of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria, and the Mongol world inhabited by the Golden Horde in Central Asia, the Ilkhanids in Iran and Anatolia, the Ilkhanids' successors, and Temr. The relationships among these rival rulers were often highly charged, and diplomatic missions were exchanged in an effort to promote each ruler's ideology. This was the first book to explore what it meant to be a monarch in the pre-modern Islamic world, and how ideas about sovereignty evolved across the period. This groundbreaking work will appeal to scholars of Middle Eastern and Central Asian history, Mongol history, and Islamic history, as well as historians of diplomacy and ideology.
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