Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications
- Preface
- 1 The Origin of Key Shi‘ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History
- 2 Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties
- 3 Al-Tha‘alibi's Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes
- 4 Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience
- 5 Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses
- 6 The Coming of Islam to Bukhara
- 7 A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination
- 8 The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia
- 9 Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan
- 10 Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources
- 11 Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran
- 12 Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind
- 13 Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-‘Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina
- 14 On Sunni Sectarianism
- 15 The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution
- 16 Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
9 - Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications
- Preface
- 1 The Origin of Key Shi‘ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History
- 2 Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties
- 3 Al-Tha‘alibi's Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes
- 4 Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience
- 5 Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses
- 6 The Coming of Islam to Bukhara
- 7 A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination
- 8 The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia
- 9 Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan
- 10 Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources
- 11 Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran
- 12 Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind
- 13 Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-‘Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina
- 14 On Sunni Sectarianism
- 15 The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution
- 16 Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
A manuscript now entitled Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan may be found in the Saint Petersburg University Library, no. OP. 950 (B). It was catalogued by A. T. Tagirdjanov (1962: 116–18), who correctly identified the work and the disorder of its contents and established the proper sequence of the text, which unfortunately has several lacunae and ends abruptly in mid-sentence. The fragment, on folios 9–88, is bound together with two other texts, to which it has no relation, either in terms of subject matter, calligraphy or paper, in a small volume of 133 folios. The page size of the Tarikh is 230 × 160 mm and the text block is 176 × 100 mm, within a margin ruled in blue, black and gold. The manuscript is in poor condition, being not only well worn and soiled by age, but having suffered water damage that has affected the bottom line of text on each page; possibly a victim of the flood of 1924. Furthermore, it has undergone the indignity of being used as a drawing pad for a childish hand, in which various doodles can be found at different points in the text, apart from the fly-leaves, especially on the first page (fol. 9r.) and beside the paintings (see esp. fols 39r., 45r.).
Unfortunately, being defective at the end, the copy is undated, and it might be attributed, in its present state, to more than one phase of production, as will be discussed below.
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- Living Islamic HistoryStudies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand, pp. 129 - 150Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2010