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9 - Turkic and Chaghatay Sources

from Volume II Part 1 - Literary Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

By
Devin DeWeese
Edited by
Michal Biran  and
Hodong Kim
Michal Biran
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hodong Kim
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
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Summary

This chapter surveys the extant examples of Islamic literature in Turkic produced in the western parts of the Mongol-ruled world in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as evidence for the process of Islamization and cultural assimilation occurring under Mongol rule. A brief note on the production, in the Mongol era, of most of the surviving manuscripts of pre-Mongol Islamic Turkic works is followed by discussion of the questions of authorship, content, and patronage for the major Turkic literary products from the ulus of Jochi – the Muʿīn al-murīd, the Khusraw va Shīrīn of Quṭb, the Maḥabbat-nāma of Khwārazmī, and the Nahj al-farādīs of Maḥmūd b. ʻAlī – and for those from the Chaghadaid realm – Rabghūzī’s Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā and the work of Isḥāq Khwāja b. Ismāʻīl Ata.

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Islamic Turkic literatureJochid UlusChaghadaid UlusMuʻīn al-murīdQuṭbMaḥabbat-nāmaKhwārazmī: Nahj al-farādīsRabghūzīIsḥāq Khwāja b. Ismāʻīl AtaḤadīqat al-ʻārifīn.
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The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire , pp. 1149 - 1164
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Print publication year: 2023

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