Stefan Kamola
Biographic Data
| ID | 1440734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Kamola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamola |
| SIGNATURE | KAMOLA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1422-6097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reconstructing Rashīdī Manuscript Production
Rashīd al-Dīn (d. 1318) left very specific instruction for how his scholarly works, including the historical compendium, the Collected Histories (Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh), were to be reproduced and distributed. However, these plans were disrupted by his fall from grace and execution. Several partial manuscripts of the Collected Histories have survived from Rashīd al-Dīn’s lifetime, but they do not match his instructions. This suggests that additional e…
First Draft of the First World History
Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (d. 1318) has been called the "first world historian" because of how foreign historical sources are treated in the second volume of his Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh. New manuscript materials have shown, however, that his contemporary courtier and historian, ʿAbd Allāh Qāshānī, is likely the real author of much of the Jāmiʿ. This article advances the discussion about the creation of Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh by describing and analyzing an alterna…
The Ilkhanate, 1260–1335
The Ilkhanate was a Mongol-ruled state based in Iran and Mesopotamia between the mid-thirteenth century and the mid-fourteenth. Established by Hülegü, grandson of Chinggis Khan, after 1258, it drew on previous decades of Mongol military and administrative intervention in the region. Throughout their eighty years in power, the descendants of Hülegü faced the challenge of governing a society and landscape foreign to Mongol traditional life and heav…
The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and …
Nomads in the Middle East By Beatrice Forbes Manz
Journal Article Nomads in the Middle East By Beatrice Forbes Manz Get access Nomads in the Middle EastBy Beatrice Forbes Manz ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Themes in Islamic History), xvii + 278 pp. Price PB £21.99. EAN 978–0521531634. Stefan Kamola Stefan Kamola Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Iranian Studies E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Commentary on Ibrahim Allawi’s “Some Evolutionary and Cosmological Aspects of Early Islamic Town Planning”
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Remaking Mongol History, 1307–1313
After his experience compiling a world history and composing various theological works, Rashid al-Din returned to the Blessed History of Ghazan and applied new ideas to the text and to its presentation. These included new ways to represent genealogical relationships, the inclusion of a series of illustrations, and a new imperative about the reproduction and preservation of the text. This chapter traces these changes, as well as a series of textua…
Mongol Dynastic History, 1302–1304
The Blessed History of Ghazan ( Tarikh-i Mubarak-i Ghazani ) marked the culmination of several decades of historical writing that worked to integrate the Mongol ilkhans into historical and cultural patterns indigenous to the Middle East, but it was one of the first works produced under direct Ilkhanid patronage. This chapter surveys the historical writing of the early Ilkhanate before focusing on a series of works commissioned by Ghazan Khan (129…
Mongols in a Muslim World, 1218–1280
The conquest of the Middle East by the family of Chinggis Khan between 1220 and 1260 was a major disruption in the lives of the native population. It also created conflict among branches of the Mongol royal family, who competed over the resources of the region. This chapter traces the contours of that conflict, as the descendants of Chinggis Khan’s sons Jochi and Tolui vied for prominence over the eastern Islamic world. In the end, Tolui’s son Hu…
Untangling the Chaghadaids
The internal dynastic politics of the Chaghadaid ulus between the death of Chaghadai and the rise of Qaidu has remained a poorly understood corner in the history of Mongol Central Asia. As part of this obscurity, the structure of the Chaghadaid family has resisted efforts at reconstruction, since our sources present conflicting accounts of the number and order of Chaghadai’s descendants. This article discusses four versions of the Chaghadaid fami…
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire By Anne F. Broadbridge
Anne Broadbridge is not the first writer to comment on the significant role that royal women played in Mongol dynastic and political affairs. The earliest European travellers to the Mongol court in the 1240s and 1250s noted the conspicuous activity of women as queens and as regents. At the same time, a peculiar historical coincidence between the conversion of certain tribes to Nestorianism and exogamous marriage patterns on the steppe meant that …
Making Mongol History
Explores Rashid al-Din's impact on seven centuries of historical writingA narrative of early Ilkhanid history accessible to students and useful to scholarsA new approach to the biography of one of the most influential figures in medieval Islamic historyIncludes appendices describing the structure, sources and illustrative programs of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh and cataloguing all known manuscripts of the workShows the relationship between early modern…
Making Mongol History
Making Mongol History examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It seeks to integrate his most famous work, the historical compendium, the Collected Histories ( Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh ), into two contexts: a developing genre of Persian historical writing and Rashid al-Din’s broader political and intellectual projects. Opening chapters offer an overview of…
A Sensational and Unique Novelty
Rashid al-Din’s world history, contained in the second volume of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh, is widely popular among modern scholars as a monument of early Persian book art and a witness to the cultural hybridity of Ilkhanid Iran. However, for most of the seven centuries since the work’s creation, it received very little attention and was copied in only a handful of contexts. This article examines the circumstances for the production of the world hist…
History and legend in the Jāmi` al-tawārikh
This article explores the historical writings of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318) as part of a programme of political legitimisation for the Mongol Ilkhans of Iran. By considering both volumes of the Jami` al-tawārikh alongside one another and in their political context, it reveals aspects of the text that get lost when the dynastic and world history are treated in isolation. Rashid al-Din's presentation of legendary figures of communal identity fro…
The Mongol Īlkhāns and their Vizier Rashīd al-Dīn , Dorothea Krawulsky, Frankfurt am Main
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
History and legend in the Jāmi` al-tawārikh
This article explores the historical writings of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318) as part of a programme of political legitimisation for the Mongol Ilkhans of Iran. By considering both volumes of the Jami` al-tawārikh alongside one another and in their political context, it reveals aspects of the text that get lost when the dynastic and world history are treated in isolation. Rashid al-Din's presentation of legendary figures of communal identity fro…
Making Mongol History
Making Mongol History examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It seeks to integrate his most famous work, the historical compendium, the Collected Histories ( Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh ), into two contexts: a developing genre of Persian historical writing and Rashid al-Din’s broader political and intellectual projects. Opening chapters offer an overview of…
Making Mongol History
Explores Rashid al-Din's impact on seven centuries of historical writingA narrative of early Ilkhanid history accessible to students and useful to scholarsA new approach to the biography of one of the most influential figures in medieval Islamic historyIncludes appendices describing the structure, sources and illustrative programs of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh and cataloguing all known manuscripts of the workShows the relationship between early modern…
A Sensational and Unique Novelty
Rashid al-Din’s world history, contained in the second volume of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh, is widely popular among modern scholars as a monument of early Persian book art and a witness to the cultural hybridity of Ilkhanid Iran. However, for most of the seven centuries since the work’s creation, it received very little attention and was copied in only a handful of contexts. This article examines the circumstances for the production of the world hist…
The Mongol Īlkhāns and their Vizier Rashīd al-Dīn , Dorothea Krawulsky, Frankfurt am Main
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
History and legend in the Jāmi` al-tawārikh
This article explores the historical writings of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318) as part of a programme of political legitimisation for the Mongol Ilkhans of Iran. By considering both volumes of the Jami` al-tawārikh alongside one another and in their political context, it reveals aspects of the text that get lost when the dynastic and world history are treated in isolation. Rashid al-Din's presentation of legendary figures of communal identity fro…
A Sensational and Unique Novelty
Rashid al-Din’s world history, contained in the second volume of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh, is widely popular among modern scholars as a monument of early Persian book art and a witness to the cultural hybridity of Ilkhanid Iran. However, for most of the seven centuries since the work’s creation, it received very little attention and was copied in only a handful of contexts. This article examines the circumstances for the production of the world hist…
Remaking Mongol History, 1307–1313
After his experience compiling a world history and composing various theological works, Rashid al-Din returned to the Blessed History of Ghazan and applied new ideas to the text and to its presentation. These included new ways to represent genealogical relationships, the inclusion of a series of illustrations, and a new imperative about the reproduction and preservation of the text. This chapter traces these changes, as well as a series of textua…
Mongol Dynastic History, 1302–1304
The Blessed History of Ghazan ( Tarikh-i Mubarak-i Ghazani ) marked the culmination of several decades of historical writing that worked to integrate the Mongol ilkhans into historical and cultural patterns indigenous to the Middle East, but it was one of the first works produced under direct Ilkhanid patronage. This chapter surveys the historical writing of the early Ilkhanate before focusing on a series of works commissioned by Ghazan Khan (129…
Mongols in a Muslim World, 1218–1280
The conquest of the Middle East by the family of Chinggis Khan between 1220 and 1260 was a major disruption in the lives of the native population. It also created conflict among branches of the Mongol royal family, who competed over the resources of the region. This chapter traces the contours of that conflict, as the descendants of Chinggis Khan’s sons Jochi and Tolui vied for prominence over the eastern Islamic world. In the end, Tolui’s son Hu…
Untangling the Chaghadaids
The internal dynastic politics of the Chaghadaid ulus between the death of Chaghadai and the rise of Qaidu has remained a poorly understood corner in the history of Mongol Central Asia. As part of this obscurity, the structure of the Chaghadaid family has resisted efforts at reconstruction, since our sources present conflicting accounts of the number and order of Chaghadai’s descendants. This article discusses four versions of the Chaghadaid fami…
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire By Anne F. Broadbridge
Anne Broadbridge is not the first writer to comment on the significant role that royal women played in Mongol dynastic and political affairs. The earliest European travellers to the Mongol court in the 1240s and 1250s noted the conspicuous activity of women as queens and as regents. At the same time, a peculiar historical coincidence between the conversion of certain tribes to Nestorianism and exogamous marriage patterns on the steppe meant that …
Making Mongol History
Explores Rashid al-Din's impact on seven centuries of historical writingA narrative of early Ilkhanid history accessible to students and useful to scholarsA new approach to the biography of one of the most influential figures in medieval Islamic historyIncludes appendices describing the structure, sources and illustrative programs of the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh and cataloguing all known manuscripts of the workShows the relationship between early modern…
Making Mongol History
Making Mongol History examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East. It seeks to integrate his most famous work, the historical compendium, the Collected Histories ( Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh ), into two contexts: a developing genre of Persian historical writing and Rashid al-Din’s broader political and intellectual projects. Opening chapters offer an overview of…
Titelseiten
Commentary on Ibrahim Allawi’s “Some Evolutionary and Cosmological Aspects of Early Islamic Town Planning”
.
The Ilkhanate, 1260–1335
The Ilkhanate was a Mongol-ruled state based in Iran and Mesopotamia between the mid-thirteenth century and the mid-fourteenth. Established by Hülegü, grandson of Chinggis Khan, after 1258, it drew on previous decades of Mongol military and administrative intervention in the region. Throughout their eighty years in power, the descendants of Hülegü faced the challenge of governing a society and landscape foreign to Mongol traditional life and heav…
The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and …
Nomads in the Middle East By Beatrice Forbes Manz
Journal Article Nomads in the Middle East By Beatrice Forbes Manz Get access Nomads in the Middle EastBy Beatrice Forbes Manz ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Themes in Islamic History), xvii + 278 pp. Price PB £21.99. EAN 978–0521531634. Stefan Kamola Stefan Kamola Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Iranian Studies E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Reconstructing Rashīdī Manuscript Production
Rashīd al-Dīn (d. 1318) left very specific instruction for how his scholarly works, including the historical compendium, the Collected Histories (Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh), were to be reproduced and distributed. However, these plans were disrupted by his fall from grace and execution. Several partial manuscripts of the Collected Histories have survived from Rashīd al-Dīn’s lifetime, but they do not match his instructions. This suggests that additional e…
First Draft of the First World History
Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (d. 1318) has been called the "first world historian" because of how foreign historical sources are treated in the second volume of his Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh. New manuscript materials have shown, however, that his contemporary courtier and historian, ʿAbd Allāh Qāshānī, is likely the real author of much of the Jāmiʿ. This article advances the discussion about the creation of Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh by describing and analyzing an alterna…
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