Durand-Guédy David (Ed). Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life

Leiden: Brill, 2013. — 474 р. — (Brill's Inner Asian Library (Book 31)).For nearly a millennium, a large part of Asia was ruled by Turkic or Mongol dynasties of nomadic origin. What was the attitude of these dynasties towards the many cities they controlled, some of which were of considerable size? To what extent did they live like their subjects? How did they evolve? Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life aims to broaden the perspective on the issue of location of rule in this particular context by bringing together specialists in various periods, from pre-Chingissid Eurasia to nineteenth-century Iran, and of various disciplines (history, archaeology, history of art).
Contributors include: Michal Biran, David Durand-Guédy, Kurt Franz, Peter Golden, Minoru Inaba, Nobuaki Kondo, Yuri Karev, Tomoko Masuya, Charles Melville, Jürgen Paul and Andrew Peacock.List of abbreviations.
Notes on dates and transliteration.
Notes on contributors.Location of rule in a context of Turko-Mongol domination.
David Durand-Guédy.
Courts and Court Culture in the Proto-urban and Urban Developments among the Pre-Chinggisid Turkic Peoples.
Peter Golden.
Sedentary Rulers on the Move: The Travels of the Early Ghaznavid Sultans.
Minoru Inaba.
From tents to city. The royal court of the Western Qarakhanids between Bukhara and Samarqand.
Yury Karev.
The tents of the Saljuqs.
David Durand-Guédy.
Court and nomadic life in Saljuq Anatolia.
A.C.S. Peacock.
Seasonal capitals with permanent buildings &in the Mongol empire.
Tomoko Masuya*.
Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370).
Michal Biran.
The itineraries of Shāhrukh b. Timur (1405-47).
Charles Melville.
A Landscape of Fortresses: Central Anatolia in Astarābādī’s Bazm wa razm.
Jürgen Paul.
The Castle and the Country: Spatial Orientations of Qipchaq Mamluk Rule.
Kurt Franz.
Between Tehran and Sulṭāniyya.Early Qajar Rulers and their Itineraries.
Nobuaki Kondo.
Index of Persons dynasties and groups.
Index of Places.
Index of primary sources.
Index of secondary sources.
Index of technical terms and concepts.