Beatrice Forbes Manz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3831093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatrice Forbes Manz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatrice Forbes |
| FAMILY NAME | Manz |
| SIGNATURE | MANZ B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The legacy of the nomadic empires
For almost three millennia the pastoral nomads of the Eurasian steppe formed a great reserve of mounted cavalry, threatening their settled neighbours while offering them goods and services of great value – in particular horses and skilled soldiers for their armies. The Eurasian nomads were also empire-builders, creators of imperial ideology and administrative structures that were passed down through generations of successor states. Their imperial…
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia By Peter Jackson
The Mongol Conquest of Iran
Rulers of the Mongolian Plateau had a strong interest in the Turkestan corridor linking China to the Middle East. The Mongol conquest of Iran occurred in three stages, each under a different khan. The expedition of 1219–24, led by Chinggis Khan himself, concentrated on Mawarannahr, Khwarazm, and eastern Iran (now Afghanistan), with an exploratory expedition through Iran and the Caucasus. The second major invasion, sent by Ogodei in 1230, swept th…
The Mongol World
Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. With 58 chapters written by both senior and early-career scholars, the volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars who study the Mongol Empire fro…
Nomads in the Middle East
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam, through the middle periods when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadism in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled…
Iranian Elites under the Timurids
Central Asia in Historical Perspective
The Empire of Tamerlane as an Adaptation of the Mongol Empire: An answer to David Morgan, “The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the Mongol State?”
I write this article in the spirit of the Persian poetic tradition, in which an answer to an earlier work takes off from the original and charts its own course. I will suggest that Tamerlane's recreation of the Mongol Empire was symbolic, and was part of his successful creation of a regional state which was at once Turco-Mongolian and Perso-Islamic. His experiment was continued and elaborated by his successors, and the resulting state provided a …
Temür and the early Timurids to c . 1450
Temür, or Tamerlane, rose to power in Transoxania, on the border between the sedentary and nomadic worlds. He was at once Muslim, Turk and Mongol and his grandiose career of conquest covered all the central Islamic lands along with much of the Western Mongol Empire. At his time the descendants of Chinggis Khan had lost effective power over Iran, China and the western part of the Chaghadayid Khanate. Nonetheless, the idea of the Mongol Empire rema…
Historiographie als Sinnstiftung. Indo-persische Geschichtsschreibung während der Mogulzeit (932–1118/1516–1707) , Stephan Conermann, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8950-0291-7, 516pp
Historiographie als Sinnstiftung. Indo-persische Geschichtsschreibung während der Mogulzeit (932–1118/1516–1707), Stephan Conermann, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8950-0291-7, 516pp. - Volume 42 Issue 1
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age
This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Eur…
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
Beatrice Forbes Manz uses the history of Iran under the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1409–1447) to analyse the relationship between government and society in the medieval Middle East. She provides a rich portrait of Iranian society over an exceptionally broad spectrum - the dynasty and its servitors, city elite and provincial rulers, and the religious classes, both ulama' and Sufi. The work addresses two issues central to pre-modern Middle Eastern his…
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan) 2004, 50 minutes. In Kyrgyz and Russian with English subtitles. Director: Petr Lom; Assistant Director: Fatima Sarbaeve; Distributor First Run Icarus Films,…
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan) 2004, 50 minutes. In Kyrgyz and Russian with English subtitles. Director: Petr Lom; Assistant Director: Fatima Sarbaeve; Distributor First Run Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11021 (718-488-8900; 800-876-1710; fax 718-488-8642; [email protected]; http://www.frif.com/ - Volume 39 Issue 2
Islamic art: History, culture, and patronage
Multi-ethnic Empires and the formulation of identity
This article explores the effect of multi-ethnic empires on the formulation of identity, examining particularly identities developed before the modern period. Imperial state structures and legitimation influenced the understanding of ethnic identities; the resulting definitions and expectations often outlived the empire. Modern European nationalism developed from the group feeling and ideologies of medieval and early modern Europe, influenced by …
The rule of the infidels: The Mongols and the Islamic world
The formation of the Mongol empire The Mongol period was a watershed for the Islamic world, as it was for most of Eurasia. The ferocity of the conquest and the confusion of early rule exacerbated an agricultural decline already deepened by decades of internal warfare. For artisans and merchants, however, the period brought significant new opportunities. As foreign nomads, the Mongols were not a novelty, and eastern regions had already experienced…
The New Cambridge History of Islam
This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and a…
Mongol History rewritten and relived
L'Histoire fut une base importante de légitimation et de précédents pour le Moyen-Orient médiéval, à la fois pour les gouvernants et pour leurs sujets. En Iran et en Asie centrale, l'histoire la plus récente et la plus riche d'enseignement fut celle de la conquête et de la souveraineté mongoles ; ceci fut vrai pour les Iraniens comme pour la classe dirigeante turco-mongole. Dans l'histoire dynastique comme dans l'histoire régionale, nous percevon…
Temür and the problem of a conqueror's legacy
Temür has been many things to many people. He was nomad and city-builder, Turk and promoter of Persian culture, restorer of the Mongol order and warrior for the spread of Islam. One thing he was to all: a conqueror of unequalled scope, able to subdue both the vast areas of nomad power to the north and the centres of agrarian Islamic culture to the south. The history of his successors was one of increasing political fragmentation and economic stre…
The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. Morris Rossabi
Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia: Aspects of Administrative, Economic and Social History, Eleventh-Fourteenth Century. Ann K. S. Lambton
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
Muslims of the Soviet Empire: A Guide
Temür and the problem of a conqueror's legacy
Temür has been many things to many people. He was nomad and city-builder, Turk and promoter of Persian culture, restorer of the Mongol order and warrior for the spread of Islam. One thing he was to all: a conqueror of unequalled scope, able to subdue both the vast areas of nomad power to the north and the centres of agrarian Islamic culture to the south. The history of his successors was one of increasing political fragmentation and economic stre…
Tamerlane and the Symbolism of Sovereignty
The great nomad conqueror Timur set out to conquer the whole of the former Mongol Empire and almost succeeded. Although the dynasty he founded lasted a relatively short time, he became a legendary figure within the Turco-Mongolian tradition of the Middle East and Central Asia, the subject of an elaborate myth connecting the Timurid dynasty with that of Chinggis Khan. The dynastic claims formulated by Timur's successors remained alive and relevant…
Mongol History rewritten and relived
L'Histoire fut une base importante de légitimation et de précédents pour le Moyen-Orient médiéval, à la fois pour les gouvernants et pour leurs sujets. En Iran et en Asie centrale, l'histoire la plus récente et la plus riche d'enseignement fut celle de la conquête et de la souveraineté mongoles ; ceci fut vrai pour les Iraniens comme pour la classe dirigeante turco-mongole. Dans l'histoire dynastique comme dans l'histoire régionale, nous percevon…
The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule
Multi-ethnic Empires and the formulation of identity
This article explores the effect of multi-ethnic empires on the formulation of identity, examining particularly identities developed before the modern period. Imperial state structures and legitimation influenced the understanding of ethnic identities; the resulting definitions and expectations often outlived the empire. Modern European nationalism developed from the group feeling and ideologies of medieval and early modern Europe, influenced by …
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Central Asian Uprisings in the Nineteenth Century: Ferghana under the Russians
During the last decades of the nineteenth century Russian colonial rule in Turkestan met little resistance from the native population. Only the small and fertile area of the Ferghana Valley remained a center of unrest. This region, situated northwest of the Pamirs and bounded north and south by the smaller Chotkal and Alai ranges, contained some of the best agricultural land in Central Asia and under Russian rule became an important center of cot…
The Mongol World
Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. With 58 chapters written by both senior and early-career scholars, the volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars who study the Mongol Empire fro…
Central Asian Uprisings in the Nineteenth Century: Ferghana under the Russians
During the last decades of the nineteenth century Russian colonial rule in Turkestan met little resistance from the native population. Only the small and fertile area of the Ferghana Valley remained a center of unrest. This region, situated northwest of the Pamirs and bounded north and south by the smaller Chotkal and Alai ranges, contained some of the best agricultural land in Central Asia and under Russian rule became an important center of cot…
Muslims of the Soviet Empire: A Guide
Tamerlane and the Symbolism of Sovereignty
The great nomad conqueror Timur set out to conquer the whole of the former Mongol Empire and almost succeeded. Although the dynasty he founded lasted a relatively short time, he became a legendary figure within the Turco-Mongolian tradition of the Middle East and Central Asia, the subject of an elaborate myth connecting the Timurid dynasty with that of Chinggis Khan. The dynastic claims formulated by Timur's successors remained alive and relevant…
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Introduction 2. The Ulus Chaghatay in the mid-fourteenth century 3. Temur's rise to power: the politics of the Ulus Chaghatay 4. Temur's army of conquest: the Ulus Chaghatay 5. Temur's army of conquest: outsiders and conquered peoples 6. Structure and function in Temur's administration 7. The struggle for succession 8. Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia: Aspects of Administrative, Economic and Social History, Eleventh-Fourteenth Century. Ann K. S. Lambton
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. Morris Rossabi
The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule
Temür and the problem of a conqueror's legacy
Temür has been many things to many people. He was nomad and city-builder, Turk and promoter of Persian culture, restorer of the Mongol order and warrior for the spread of Islam. One thing he was to all: a conqueror of unequalled scope, able to subdue both the vast areas of nomad power to the north and the centres of agrarian Islamic culture to the south. The history of his successors was one of increasing political fragmentation and economic stre…
The rule of the infidels: The Mongols and the Islamic world
The formation of the Mongol empire The Mongol period was a watershed for the Islamic world, as it was for most of Eurasia. The ferocity of the conquest and the confusion of early rule exacerbated an agricultural decline already deepened by decades of internal warfare. For artisans and merchants, however, the period brought significant new opportunities. As foreign nomads, the Mongols were not a novelty, and eastern regions had already experienced…
The New Cambridge History of Islam
This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and a…
Mongol History rewritten and relived
L'Histoire fut une base importante de légitimation et de précédents pour le Moyen-Orient médiéval, à la fois pour les gouvernants et pour leurs sujets. En Iran et en Asie centrale, l'histoire la plus récente et la plus riche d'enseignement fut celle de la conquête et de la souveraineté mongoles ; ceci fut vrai pour les Iraniens comme pour la classe dirigeante turco-mongole. Dans l'histoire dynastique comme dans l'histoire régionale, nous percevon…
Islamic art: History, culture, and patronage
Multi-ethnic Empires and the formulation of identity
This article explores the effect of multi-ethnic empires on the formulation of identity, examining particularly identities developed before the modern period. Imperial state structures and legitimation influenced the understanding of ethnic identities; the resulting definitions and expectations often outlived the empire. Modern European nationalism developed from the group feeling and ideologies of medieval and early modern Europe, influenced by …
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan) 2004, 50 minutes. In Kyrgyz and Russian with English subtitles. Director: Petr Lom; Assistant Director: Fatima Sarbaeve; Distributor First Run Icarus Films,…
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan) 2004, 50 minutes. In Kyrgyz and Russian with English subtitles. Director: Petr Lom; Assistant Director: Fatima Sarbaeve; Distributor First Run Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11021 (718-488-8900; 800-876-1710; fax 718-488-8642; [email protected]; http://www.frif.com/ - Volume 39 Issue 2
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
Beatrice Forbes Manz uses the history of Iran under the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1409–1447) to analyse the relationship between government and society in the medieval Middle East. She provides a rich portrait of Iranian society over an exceptionally broad spectrum - the dynasty and its servitors, city elite and provincial rulers, and the religious classes, both ulama' and Sufi. The work addresses two issues central to pre-modern Middle Eastern his…
Temür and the early Timurids to c . 1450
Temür, or Tamerlane, rose to power in Transoxania, on the border between the sedentary and nomadic worlds. He was at once Muslim, Turk and Mongol and his grandiose career of conquest covered all the central Islamic lands along with much of the Western Mongol Empire. At his time the descendants of Chinggis Khan had lost effective power over Iran, China and the western part of the Chaghadayid Khanate. Nonetheless, the idea of the Mongol Empire rema…
Historiographie als Sinnstiftung. Indo-persische Geschichtsschreibung während der Mogulzeit (932–1118/1516–1707) , Stephan Conermann, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8950-0291-7, 516pp
Historiographie als Sinnstiftung. Indo-persische Geschichtsschreibung während der Mogulzeit (932–1118/1516–1707), Stephan Conermann, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8950-0291-7, 516pp. - Volume 42 Issue 1
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age
This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Eur…
The Empire of Tamerlane as an Adaptation of the Mongol Empire: An answer to David Morgan, “The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the Mongol State?”
I write this article in the spirit of the Persian poetic tradition, in which an answer to an earlier work takes off from the original and charts its own course. I will suggest that Tamerlane's recreation of the Mongol Empire was symbolic, and was part of his successful creation of a regional state which was at once Turco-Mongolian and Perso-Islamic. His experiment was continued and elaborated by his successors, and the resulting state provided a …
Central Asia in Historical Perspective
Iranian Elites under the Timurids
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