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| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols Urgunge Onon, 2001 This fresh translation of one of the only surviving Mongol sources about the Mongol empire, brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while remaining faithful to the original text. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols Professor Urgunge Onon, Urgunge Onon, 2005-08-18 There has long been a need for a scholarly English edition of the great 13th century historical epic, The Secret History of the Mongols, the only surviving Mongol source about the empire. The book is mainly about the life and the career of Chinggis Khan, his ancestors and his rise to power. Chinggis Khan was not only a military genius, but also a great statesman and diplomat. Through a combination of armed force and diplomacy, he managed to merge the complex system of alliances which existed between diverse tribes into a powerful confederacy that swept across most of Eurasia, starting in 1219. Urgunge Onon's fresh translation brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while remaining faithful to the original text. This fully annotated edition is prefaced by a 36 page introduction setting the work in its cultural and historical context. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens Jack Weatherford, 2010-02-16 “A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan “Enticing . . . hard to put down.”—Associated Press The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section about the queens from the Secret History of the Mongols, and, with that one act, the dynasty of these royals had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, a groundbreaking and magnificently researched narrative, Jack Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols , 2023-07-27 A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan 'Bear the sword and Hew asunder high and haughty necks Slash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders' Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day Beijing to Baghdad. The Secret History of the Mongols, written after Chinggis's death in the thirteenth century, is a great historical saga recounting not only his turbulent life and times, but that of his loved ones, ancestors and heirs. This remarkable new translation of the earliest surviving work written in Mongolian gives insight into a world of warlords, kinship, horses, yurts, shamans and vast landscapes, where bloody battles and violent family conflicts are impelled by Heaven's destiny. Translated with an introduction by Christopher P. Atwood |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols Igor de Rachewiltz, 2004 The 13th century Secret History of the Mongols, covering the great ?inggis Qan's (?1162-1227) ancestry and life, a literary monument of first magnitude. Introduction, full translation and commentary. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols Paul Kahn, 1998 This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan's death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of C |
| secret history of the mongols: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford, 2005-03-22 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Works Arthur Waley, 2008-01-12 In this unforgettable book, Waley brings together a number of articles, poems and translations. Included are pieces on the poet Ts'en Shen and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yu, but the most compelling is 'The Secret History of the Mongols', with fantastic tales of epic battles; betrayal and love; tyrants and prisoners. |
| secret history of the mongols: Studies on the Secret History of the Mongols Kuo-yi Pao, 1997 |
| secret history of the mongols: The History and the Life of Chinggis Khan Urgunge Onon, 1990 |
| secret history of the mongols: Index to the Secret History of the Mongols Igor de Rachewiltz, 1997 |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongols and Global History Morris Rossabi, 2011 An accessible, documents-based introduction to the history of the Mongols. The volume opens with a brief original essay by Morris Rossabi, one of the world's foremost scholars on the Mongols. Rossabi's essay gives a historical and interpretive overview of the Mongols and charts their invasions and subsequent rule over the largest contiguous land empire in world history. Following is a rich collection of primary sources translated into English from Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Franco-Italian, Italian, Korean, Latin, Persian, Russian, Syriac, and Tibetan that will give students a clear sense of the extraordinary geographic and linguistic range of the Mongol Empire as well as insight into the empire's rise, how it governed, and how it fell. Each primary source includes a headnote and study questions. The volume ends with a list of further readings. About the series: The Norton Casebooks in History provide students with everything they need for in-depth study of select topics in major periods studied in American and world history. Each volume consists of an introductory essay by the editor on the topic, primary sources, and recent essays by historians that explore different interpretations. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the topic to life for students |
| secret history of the mongols: The Rise of the Mongols , 2021-10-06 Rise of the Mongols offers readers a selection of five important works that detail the rise of the Mongol Empire through Chinese eyes. Three of these works were written by officials of South China's Southern Song dynasty and two are from officials from North China writing in the service of the Mongol rulers. Together, these accounts offer a view of the early Mongol Empire very different not just from those of Muslim and Christian travelers and chroniclers, but also from the Mongol tradition embodied in The Secret History of Mongols. The five Chinese source texts (in English translation, each with their own preface): Selections from Random Notes from Court and Country since the Jianyan Years, vol.2, by Li XinchuanA Memorandum on the Mong-Tatars, by Zhao GongA Sketch of the Black Tatars, by Peng Daya and Xu TingSpirit-Path Stele for His Honor Yelü, Director of the Secretariat, by Song ZizhenNotes on a Journey, by Zhang Dehui Also included are an introduction, index, bibliography, and appendices covering notes on the texts, tables and charts, and a glossary of Chinese and transcribed terms. |
| secret history of the mongols: Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire Anne F. Broadbridge, 2018-07-18 How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Hö'elün, and senior wife, Börte, as well as those who were less famous but equally influential, including his daughters and his conquered wives, we see the systematic and essential participation of women in empire, politics and war. Anne F. Broadbridge also proposes a new vision of Chinggis Khan's well-known atomized army by situating his daughters and their husbands at the heart of his army reforms, looks at women's key roles in Mongol politics and succession, and charts the ways the descendants of Chinggis Khan's daughters dominated the Khanates that emerged after the breakup of the Empire in the 1260s. |
| secret history of the mongols: Genghis Khan and the Quest for God Jack Weatherford, 2016-10-25 A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. He needed religion. And so, unlike the Christian, Taoist and Muslim conquerors who came before him, he gave his subjects freedom of religion. Genghis lived in the 13th century, but he struggled with many of the same problems we face today: How should one balance religious freedom with the need to reign in fanatics? Can one compel rival religions - driven by deep seated hatred--to live together in peace? A celebrated anthropologist whose bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World radically transformed our understanding of the Mongols and their legacy, Jack Weatherford has spent eighteen years exploring areas of Mongolia closed until the fall of the Soviet Union and researching The Secret History of the Mongols, an astonishing document written in code that was only recently discovered. He pored through archives and found groundbreaking evidence of Genghis's influence on the founding fathers and his essential impact on Thomas Jefferson. Genghis Khan and the Quest for God is a masterpiece of erudition and insight, his most personal and resonant work. |
| secret history of the mongols: Genghis Khan R. P. Lister, 2000 This book is an astonishingly well-written account of the early life and rise to power of Genghis Khan, perhaps the most fearsome warrior of all time. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols Arthur Waley, 1963 |
| secret history of the mongols: The History of the Mongol Conquests J. J. Saunders, 2001-03-29 By far the best modern narrative account of the most extensive land empire in the history of the world.—David Morgan, author of The Mongols |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongols David Morgan, 1991-01-15 This up-to-date chronicle benefits from new discoveries and a broad range of source material. David Morgan explains how the vast Mongolian Empire was organized and governed, examing the religious and policital character of the steppe nomadic society. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongol Conquests in World History Timothy May, 2013-02-15 The Mongol Empire can be seen as marking the beginning of the modern age, and of globalization as well. While communications between the extremes of Eurasia existed prior to the Mongols, they were infrequent and often through intermediaries. As this new book by Timothy May shows, the rise of the Mongol Empire changed everything—through their conquests the Mongols swept away dozens of empires and kingdoms and replaced them with the largest contiguous empire in history. While the Mongols were an extremely destructive force in the premodern world, the Mongol Empire had stabilizing effects on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast territory, allowing merchants and missionaries to transverse Eurasia. The Mongol Conquests in World History examines the many ways in which the conquests were a catalyst for change, including changes and advancements in warfare, food, culture, and scientific knowledge. Even as Mongol power declined, the memory of the Empire fired the collective imagination of the region into far-reaching endeavors, such as the desire for luxury goods and spices that launched Columbus’s voyage and the innovations in art that were manifested in the masterpieces of the Renaissance. This fascinating book offers comprehensive coverage of the entire empire, rather than a more regional approach, and provides an extensive survey of the legacy of the Mongol Empire. |
| secret history of the mongols: Mongolia Michael Dillon, 2019-11-28 Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia. Michael Dillon, one of the foremost experts on the region, seeks to tell the modern history of this fascinating country. He investigates its history of repression, the slaughter of the country's Buddhists, its painful experiences under Soviet rule and dictatorship, and its history of corruption. But there is hope for its future, and it now has a functioning parliamentary democracy which is broadly representative of Mongolia's ethnic mix. How long that can last is another question. Short, sharp and authoritative, Mongolia will become the standard text on the region as it becomes begins to shape world affairs. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Horde Marie Favereau, 2021-04-20 Cundill Prize Finalist A Financial Times Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year A Five Books Book of the Year The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful engines of economic integration in world history to show that their accomplishments extended far beyond the battlefield. Central to the extraordinary commercial boom that brought distant civilizations in contact for the first time, the Horde had a unique political regime—a complex power-sharing arrangement between the khan and nobility—that rewarded skillful administrators and fostered a mobile, innovative economic order. From their capital on the lower Volga River, the Mongols influenced state structures in Russia and across the Islamic world, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced new ideas of religious tolerance. An eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire that has long been too little understood, The Horde challenges our assumptions that nomads are peripheral to history and makes it clear that we live in a world shaped by Mongols. “The Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity...The Horde flourished, in Favereau’s fresh, persuasive telling, precisely because it was not the one-trick homicidal rabble of legend.” —Wall Street Journal “Fascinating...The Mongols were a sophisticated people with an impressive talent for government and a sensitive relationship with the natural world...An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book.” —The Times |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of the Mongols , 2001-07-20 There has long been a need for a scholarly English edition of the great 13th century historical epic, The Secret History of the Mongols, the only surviving Mongol source about the empire. The book is mainly about the life and the career of Chinggis Khan, his ancestors and his rise to power. Chinggis Khan was not only a military genius, but also a great statesman and diplomat. Through a combination of armed force and diplomacy, he managed to merge the complex system of alliances which existed between diverse tribes into a powerful confederacy that swept across most of Eurasia, starting in 1219. Urgunge Onon's fresh translation brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while remaining faithful to the original text. This fully annotated edition is prefaced by a 36 page introduction setting the work in its cultural and historical context. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Secret History of Iran Hamad Subani, 2013 Iran is an ancient place of extreme contrasts. It is both blessed and cursed.It is home to both Islam and anti-Islam. This book attempts to trace out the Secret History of Iran, from 500 B.C. to present. This book covers the various secret groups and cabals that continue to dominate Iran, from the remnants of Mystery Babylon and the Sabaeans to crypto-Byzantines. Their little known role in the Mongol Invasion is investigated. Connections between such groups and well-known poets and intellectuals produced by Iran is methodically examined. Under the little known Khwarezm Empire, Iran served as the key to the Mongol destruction of the Islamic World. Today, Iran has once again been thrust into a similar position, as the modern-day Mongols encircle the Middle East. What role will Iran play this time? |
| secret history of the mongols: Twentieth Century Mongolia (Bat-Erdene Batbayar) Baabar, 2021-10-25 This is the first history of Mongolia available in English which benefits from access to historic data that only became available following the collapse of the socialist regime in 1990. Accordingly, it highlights the role of international politics, especially the former Soviet Union, Russia, China and Japan, in the shaping of modern Mongolia’s history. The volume actually comprises three ‘books’. Book One, entitled 'The Steppe Warriors', offers a history of Mongolia up to the 1911 revolution; Book Two, entitled ‘Incarnations and Revolutionaries’ addresses political developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1920s); Book Three, entitled ‘A Puppet Republic’ provides an in-depth analysis of the 1920s and 30s, concluding with the 1939 Haslhyn Gol Incident, The Second World War, the Post-war Map of Asia and the Fate of Mongolia’s Independence. |
| secret history of the mongols: The History of Mongolia (3 Vols.) David Sneath, Christopher Kaplonski, 2010-05-01 A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, including some translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time. The source materials and other articles are all fully contextualized and situated by introductory material by the volume’s editors. This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field. This essential reference in two volumes includes works by noted scholars including Charles Bawden, Igor de Rachewiltz, David Morgan, Owen Lattimore and Caroline Humphrey. It also includes excerpts from translations of source documents, such as the works of Rashid al-Din, The Secret History of the Mongols and the Yuan Shih. In addition, more recent historical periods are covered, with material such as Batmonh’s speech that heralded Mongolia’s versions of glasnost and perestroika, as well as Baabar’s Buu Mart, a key work associated with the Democratic Revolution of 1990. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335) Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog, 2010-12-07 Covering more than one century, this book describes the complex issues of Mongol-Armenian political relations that involved many different ethnic groups in a vast geographical area stretching from China to the Mediterranean coast in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongols Jeremiah Curtin, 2008-06-01 Praised by American president Theodore Roosevelt for his superior scholarship, folklorist Jeremiah Curtin was considered an accomplished translator, but The Mongols, published in 1908, is one of his few works of original nonfiction. At the time Curtin was writing, very little was known about the Mongols, even among well-educated men, and so this captivating book still serves as an excellent general introduction to the Mongol culture. Curtin describes their homeland and early society as herdsman and raiders and, through folklore, introduces the first leaders, or Khans, including the rise of Temudjin, the great Genghis Khan, and his conquest of Central Asia. This detailed narrative history continues after Temudjin's death-when the Mongol Empire was divided among his sons, who continued wars of conquest against the Chinese, Hungarians, Poles, and Japanese-and through to the dissolution of the empire following the death of Kublai Khan, the last man to possess centralized power among the Mongols. Students and historians will find this an extensive and informative read about an often overlooked society that nevertheless greatly influenced the development of the modern world. American author JEREMIAH CURTIN (1835-1906) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After graduating from Harvard in 1863, he moved to Russia and worked as a translator, later publishing Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy (1884-1888) and Boleslaw Prus's The Pharaoh and the Priest (1902). |
| secret history of the mongols: Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire Paul D. Buell, 2003-03-19 This Dictionary, the first work of its kind written in English, examines the history of the Mongol Empire, the pre-imperial era of Mongolian history that preceded it, and the various Mongol successor states that continued to dominate Eurasia long after the breakdown of Mongol unity. |
| secret history of the mongols: Genghis Khan Paul Lococo, 2011-09 It was through bitter experience growing up on the harsh and unforgiving steppes of Mongolia that Genghis Khan learned to trust few people and to be vigilant of the personalities and events around him. As a result of an early life filled with hardship, betrayals, and constant struggle, Genghis Khan developed into a cunning and effective leader of men in battle. He became an innovative commander who disdained customary tactics when those strategies failed to bring victory.Genghis Khan united the tribes of Mongolia in a way never before seen, leading them to the settled lands of Eurasia and achieving almost super-human victories over vastly larger forces. By the time of his death he had created an empire of immense proportions, larger than anything before in history. Genghis Khan addresses how the teenaged son of a minor Mongol chieftain created a military machine of extraordinary striking power and wielded it to conquer such lands as China, Central Asia, and Persia.Potomac's Military Profiles series features essential treatments of the lives of significant military figures from ancient times through the present. Both the general audience and readers with a professional interest will appreciate each volume's concise blend of analysis and well-crafted writing. These books also serve as a starting point for those who wish to pursue a more advanced study of the subject. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongols Timothy May, 2019 A concise and pithy history of the Mongols for a general readership as well as for an informed academic audience. |
| secret history of the mongols: Studies on The Secret History of the Mongols Kuo-yi Pao, 1965 |
| secret history of the mongols: The Book of Fathers Miklos Vamos, 2009-10-13 When in 1705 Kornell Csillag's grandfather returns destitute to his native Hungary from exile, he happens across a gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud. The shipwrecked fortunes of the Csillag family suddenly take a new and marvelous turn. The golden watch brings an unexpected gift to the future generations of firstborn sons: clairvoyance. Passed down from father to son, this gift offers the ability to look into the future or back into history–for some it is considered a blessing, for others a curse. No matter the outcome, each generation records its astonishing, vivid, and revelatory visions into a battered journal that becomes known as The Book of Fathers. For three hundred years the Csillag family line meanders unbroken across Hungary's rivers and vineyards, through a land overrun by wolves and bandits, scarred by plague and massacre, and brutalized by despots. Impetuous, tenderhearted, and shrewd, the Csillags give birth to scholars and gamblers, artists and entrepreneurs. Led astray by unruly passions, they marry frigid French noblewomen and thieving alehouse whores. They change their name and their religion, and change them back. They wander from home but always return, and through it all The Book of Fathers bears witness to holocaust and wedding feast alike. |
| secret history of the mongols: History of International Relations Erik Ringmar, 2019-08-02 Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization – and their consequences on contemporary society. History of International Relations provides a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, and anybody interested in international relations theory, history, and contemporary politics. |
| secret history of the mongols: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire William W. Fitzhugh, Morris Rossabi, William Honeychurch, 2013 Accessible scholarly treatment of Mongol history for the wider public, offering a comprehensive view from pre-historic times to the modern age. |
| secret history of the mongols: My Mongolian World Urgunge Onon, 2006 Urgunge Onon's reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. He offers a wide spectrum of experiences from a disappearing world, including everyday family life, shamanist customs, the role of the bonesetter, wolf hunting, falconry, folklore, legends of the past. |
| secret history of the mongols: The History of Money Jack Weatherford, 2009-09-23 “If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read!”—Charles R. Schwab Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money, from primitive man’s cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange. The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives—economic, political, and personal. “A fascinating book about the force that makes the world go round—the dollars, pounds, francs, marks, bahts, ringits, kwansas, levs, biplwelles, yuans, quetzales, pa’angas, ngultrums, ouguiyas, and other 200-odd brand names that collectively make up the mysterious thing we call money.”—Los Angeles Times |
| secret history of the mongols: Kubla Khan Samuel Coleridge, 2015-12-15 Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. |
| secret history of the mongols: Genghis Khan Frank McLynn, 2015-07-14 A definitive and sweeping account of the life and times of the world's greatest conqueror -- Genghis Khan -- and the rise of the Mongol empire in the 13th century Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan's rise from boyhood outcast to world conqueror. McLynn provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have ever lived. |
| secret history of the mongols: The Mongols and the Islamic World Peter Jackson, 2017-04-04 An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of infidel Mongol rule in Western Asia, drawing from an impressive array of primary sources as well as modern studies to demonstrate how Islam not only survived the savagery of the conquest, but spread throughout the empire. This unmatched study goes beyond the well-documented Mongol campaigns of massacre and devastation to explore different aspects of an immense imperial event that encompassed what is now Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia and parts of eastern Europe. It examines in depth the cultural consequences for the incorporated Islamic lands, the Muslim experience of Mongol sovereignty, and the conquerors’ eventual conversion to Islam. |
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The Secret History of the Mongols (Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠨᠢᠭᠤᠴᠠ ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢᠶᠠᠨ [ˌmɔɴɢɜˈɮʲiːɴ ˈnuːt͡sʰ ˌtʰɞɸˈt͡ɕʰɔː], Khalkha Mongolian: Монголын нууц товчоо, Mongoliin nuuc tobhchoo) is the oldest surviving …
The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle …
Part of the Asian History Commons, and the East Asian Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Rachewiltz, Igor de, "The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian …
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27 Sep 2019 · The Secret History of the Mongols is a chronicle written in the 13th century CE (with some later additions) and is the most important and oldest medieval Mongolian text. The …
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The Secret History of the Mongols, written after Chinggis's death in the thirteenth century, is a great historical saga recounting not only his turbulent life and times, but that of his loved ones, …
The Secret History of the Mongols : Francis Woodman Cleaves, …
17 Sep 2016 · The Secret History of the Mongols, translation, study, and scholarly notes by Francis Woodman Cleaves (Cambridge, Mass, 1982), in 342 pdf pages.Publication of this …
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20 Jul 2001 · There has long been a need for a scholarly English edition of the great 13th century historical epic, The Secret History of the Mongols, the only surviving Mongol source about the …
The Secret History Of The Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle …
1 Dec 2015 · The Secret History Of The Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle Of the Thirteenth Century by IGOR DE RACHEWILTZ. Publication date 2015-12-01 Topics Rachewiltz, Street, …
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS
English. Arthur Waley's partial translation (The Secret History of Mongols and Other Pieces, London, 1963, pp. 217-291), beautiful as it is, is based more on the Chinese version than on …
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Secret History of the Mongols (the ongolun niuča tobčaan), the text has an almost magical appeal as a window on an earlier and very dif-ferent world: that of Chinggis Qaan and the early …
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15 Jul 2015 · The 13th century Secret History of the Mongols, covering the great Cinggis Qan’s (1162-1227) ancestry and life, stands out as a literary monument of first magnitude. Written …
The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources
sources on the rise of Mongols were made available to researchers decades ago,1 and the indigenous Mongol source for the rise of Chinggis Khan, The Secret History, is available in the excellent translation of Igor de Rachewiltz,2 so far Chinese sources on the Mongols have mainly remained accessible only to Sinologists. Christopher
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the entire text from the Secret History of Mongols to establish a general understanding of the meaning. Second, the author checked the lexical units in the text whether any of the words in the discussion had been used metaphorically. Third, for each lexical unit, the author determined its basic meaning. The next step was to decide whether the basic
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of the Secret History to which the colophon properly applied. What we know today as the Yüan ch=ao pi-shih 元朝秘史 (Secret History of the Yüan Dynasty), or Mongqol-un niu a to[b] a=an (Secret History of the Mongols), is a much altered, expanded, and elaborately edited version of the Mongol text that was first printed shortly after 1400.
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS * by GARI LED YARD University of California Naka Michiyo noticed many years ago that the Korean campaign men-tioned in § 274 of The Secret History of the Mongols ( SH ) corresponded to events unambiguously described in the Koryõ sa in connection with the
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Textual Analysis of the Extant Original of The Secret History of the Mongols Abstract The purpose of the present thesis is to analyze every aspect of textual nature present in the Chinese original of the Secret History of the Mongols. The work consists of four chapters that touch issues such as the Chinese characters used for the
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Secret History Of The Mongols Padhraic Smyth The Secret History of the Mongols: Unveiling a Powerful Past The Mongol Empire, a vast landmass spanning from East Asia to Eastern Europe, leaves behind a legacy as complex and multifaceted as its origins. While official histories record the sweeping conquests and imperial grandeur, a deeper dive reveals
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2 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS. Temüjin. hunting. noyan. ba atur. qan. The Mongols were a small nomadic tribe in the area of Ergön. 2. and kölen Na’ur. 3. This mongol tribe moved to the Kelüren, 4. Onon, and Tula. 5. districts around the years following 970, 6. and was one of the many tribal peoples
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of the Secret History to which the colophon properly applied. What we know today as the Yüan ch=ao pi-shih 元朝秘史 (Secret History of the Yüan Dynasty), or Mongqol-un niu a to[b] a=an (Secret History of the Mongols), is a much altered, expanded, and elaborately edited version of the Mongol text that was first printed shortly after 1400.
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The Secret History of the Mongols, translated by Urgunge Onon is one of the few primary sources that exists although it usefulness is limited by the fact it is told in the form of an epic poem, much like . The Iliad, leaving open for debate which elements can be taken literally and which should be interpreted from an allegorical point of view.
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The twentieth-century rediscovery of the Secret History of the Mongols revealed the late and fabricated nature of any connection between the ancestors of the Mongol khans and the lineage of the Tibetan monarchs, let alone that of the Mahasammata. likewise Turrell wylie’s seminal
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Known as The Secret History of the Mongols," HJAS XIV (1951), li33-^92. Gf . also my paper "Some Remarks on the Dating of the Secret History of the Mongols," MS XXIV (1965), 185-206. I should mention that the text of the Secret History will become much more intelligible if readers will consult B.Ya. Vladimirtsov's Le regime social des Mongols. Le
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greater part of the Secret History (bLo * bzani bsTaii 'jin, Altan Tob6i: A Brief History of the Mongols, ed. Francis Woodman Cleaves, Scripta Mongolia 1 [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952]). The intricate story of the preservation of the text, forming in itself nearly a secret history of the Secret History, covers the first sixty-five
The Expression J̌öb Ese Bol in the Secret History of the Mongols
the Secret History must be taken as a single expression meaning" to die," we may cite other examples of this expression in the old Mongolian written language, for the Secret History is not the only text in which the expression is attested. First of all, it appears twice in the great Sino-Mongolian inscription of 1335.5
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2 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS. The Mongols were a small nomadic tribe in the area of Ergön2 and kölen Na’ur.3 This mongol tribe moved to the Kelüren,4 Onon, and Tula5 districts around the years following 970,6 and was one of the many tribal peoples shifting about nomadically during this period. The people
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The Secret History of the Mongols Igor de Rachewiltz,2022-11-07 The 13th century Secret History of the Mongols covering the great inggis Qan s 1162 1227 ancestry and life a literary monument of first magnitude Introduction full.
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various Chinese sources for its extensive portrayal of early Mongol and Turkish history. These early Oriental chronicles are no longer extant, and almost the only known description 3 Igor de Rachewiltz, The Secret History of the Mongols, II vols, Brill, 2006 4 tr. Wheeler Thackston, Harvard, 1998-9.
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J. J. Saunders, The History of the Mongol Conquests (2001) – chap.4 P. Kahn (trans.), Secret History of the Mongols (1998) R.Marshall, Storm From the East (1993) – chap.1 BBC Documentary and Docudrama - ‘Genghis Khan’ DVD (film) - Mongol: The rise to Power of Genghis Khan (S.Bodruv) Consolidation: Essays or ‘sections’ of essays
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of the Secret History to which the colophon properly applied. What we know today as the Yüan ch=ao pi-shih 元朝秘史 (Secret History of the Yüan Dynasty), or Mongqol-un niu a to[b] a=an (Secret History of the Mongols), is a much altered, expanded, and elaborately edited version of the Mongol text that was first printed shortly after 1400.
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The Secret History of the Mongols (Traditional Mongolian: Mongγol-un niγuča tobčiyan, Khalkha Mongolian: Монголын нууц товчоо, Mongolyn nuuts tovchoo[note 1]; Chinese: 《蒙古秘史》; pinyin: Měnggǔ Mìshǐ; lit. 'Mongol Secret History') is the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language. It was written ...
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Th e city name Man Kermen in Th e Secret History of the Mongols is identifi ed with Kiev in the chapters concerning the great western Mongol campaign against Eastern Europe. It is based on the ...
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2 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS. The Mongols were a small nomadic tribe in the area of Ergön2 and kölen Na’ur.3 This mongol tribe moved to the Kelüren,4 Onon, and Tula5 districts around the years following 970,6 and was one of the many tribal peoples shifting about nomadically during this period. The people
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The Secret History of the Mongols and Rash¯ıd al-D¯ın’s history give many con-crete examples of the splitting of clans into subgroups and their reassembling into larger units and tribes (aymaks). On the other hand, the great changes in the traditional nomadic
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The Secret History of the Mongols, the oldest surviving Mongolian-language literary work, is an epic chronicle left by the Mongols of the Great Mongolian State being one of the masterpieces of intellectual works of the Mongolian people. It was written some time after Chinggis Khaan's death
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SHM The Secret History of the Mongols UO Translation Urgunge Onon 2011 . 1 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the period from April 2014 to July 2018, this thesis work was carried out within the scope of the course of studies, Language Theory and Applied Linguistics at Graduate School - Class for Language
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Of prime importance is Igor de Rachewiltz's 2004 translation of the Secret History of the Mongols, the only extant Mongolian source for the rise of Chinggis Khan. The excellent translation is accompanied by an encyclopedic commentary that deals with nearly every aspect of Chinggis Khan's Mongolia. A third volume,
Pleasing the Palate of the Qan: Changing Foodways of the Imperial Mongols
general in the Secret History, in contradistinction to undin "drink," the other term used in the Secret History referring to the imperial repast (chapter 1 24). Such foodways, monotonous but nutritious,22 are well represented in the early sources,23 which also reveal changes taking place in early Mongolian foodways as the empire developed.
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Epic Themes in the Secret History of the Mongols
SINCE its discovery by Western scholars in the nineteenth century, the Secret History of the Mongols (hereafter SH) has been questioned as a source of valid history. Scholars have variously seen it as a legend,' a summary of tales,2 an heroic epic,3 an epic poem,4 and, as well, as literal history.' Although some of these characterizations are
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By SHIGEO OZAWA. Tokyo: Kazama-shob0. Vol. 1: 1984, xiv, 504,
The Secret History of the Mongols (Mouqol-un Niuc(a Tobca'an) is a partly historical and partly legendary story of the Mongol tribe from Chinggis Qahan's ancestors to his third son Ogoddy's enthronement to the Qahan. Its original text is assumed to
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The Secret History of the Mongols speaks of people of "nine tongues,"'' presumably both dialects and languages. For members of the Mongghol tribe, members of the Mongghol confederation, and for the Mongolian (in the regional sense) popula-tion in general, the pastoral habitat was the steppe, and the ecology
The Use of Verbal Nouns in The Secret History of the Mongols
The Use of Verbal Nouns in The Secret History of the Mongols. - 3 - morphs and the number of each in each of three uses: A) adnominal, B) nominal, and C) predicative. Table 1.VN morphemes in SHM1 ...
Vowel Harmony Contrast as a Poetic Device in "The Secret History …
The Secret History of the Mongols By PETER A. MICHALOVÉ (Champaign, IL) Mongolian poetry, like most other Central Asian poetry, has traditionally been seen to exploit the features of alliteration and semantic parallelism, and these devices have …
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2 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS. The Mongols were a small nomadic tribe in the area of Ergön2 and kölen Na’ur.3 This mongol tribe moved to the Kelüren,4 Onon, and Tula5 districts around the years following 970,6 and was one of the many tribal peoples shifting about nomadically during this period. The people
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We have the Secret history of the Mongols, an immensely valuable or, according to Arthur Waley,4 a historically worthless account of earlier Mongol history and of the empire to the latter years of Chingiz Kh?n's. WHO RAN THE MONGOL EMPIRE? 125 son and successor ?gedei, who died in 1241. We have some inscriptions, and
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“The Secret History of the Mongols”, a masterpiece of Mongolian epic traditions is the most precious historical epic poem today that dates back to XIII century. “The Secret History of the Mongols” (Manghol-un Niucha Tobcha'an), one of the prominent historical works of medieval Mongol literature was written in Mongolian, in 1240.
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PRIMARY SOURCE from The Secret History of the Mongols by Arthur Waley The Secret History of the Mongolswas called “secret” because it was written for the Mongols and not for the Chinese. This excerpt, which dates from about the middle of the 13th century, describes how Temujin became Genghis Khan, the
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The Secret History of the Mongols was first transferred to Modern Mongolian between 1915-1917 by the Mongolian researcher Tsen Gun (Duke Tsend) and translated into more than 30 languages, including Turkish. The first translation into Turkey Turkish was made by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Temir made use of Haenisch's German ...
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the Mongols. Keywords. the Secrete History of the Mongols, Chinese-transliterated characters from Mongolian, types of Characters, Character statistics 1 An Overview of the Researches on Chinese-Transliterated Characters Almost every researcher who studies The Secrete History of the Mongols (SHM), whatever his
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS (SH)7 The original history was written, probably in Uighur script, by an unknown author in Kod’e Aral8. The suspicion falls on Shigi Kutuqu9 or someone not only known to Chinghiss but also to the Imperial family, who had unlimited access to written10 and oral records.
The Quarrelling Sons in the Secret History of the Mongols
The Secret History of the Mongols (SHM), a 13th-century literary text, contains a variety of folklore types and motifs that have not as yet been systematically analyzed according to the type and motif indices used by folklorists. One of the most obvious of these types that occurs in the
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146 Acta Orientalia Hung. 74 (2021) 1, 145–157 In The Secret History of the Mongols, three chapters deal with the Mongols’ western campaigns against Europe, and in these chapters, the city of Man Kermen is recorded. 1 It was widely accepted that the city can be identified with the town of Kiev, the ecclesiastical centre of the Kievan Rus’ in
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Genghis Khan: a history
‘The Secret History of the Mongols’ is the most important source we have about the Mongols written by the Mongols themselves. It was written shortly after the death of Ghenghis Khan (Temüjin) in 1227 as a private/secret history made for Temüjin’s family but we know about it from Chinese translations made in the 14th century. Using the ...
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1997, 185). The anonymous Mongolian chronicle, the Secret History of the Mongols, highlights the importance of the leading altan uruq, saying that the quriltai was attended by, “the princes of the right hand headed by Ča‘adai [Chaghadai] and Batu; the princes of the left hand headed by Otčigin Noyan, Yegü and Yisüngge; the princes of the
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Beyond the Horde: Unveiling the Secret History of the Mongols The Mongols, a name synonymous with conquest and brutality, are often painted with a single, monolithic brushstroke. Their rise from a nomadic people to the architects of the largest contiguous land empire in history is a tale often told with an
