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  1. Libraries, Books, and Transmission of Knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, March 2019, Brill

    Professor Michal Biran

  2. Introduction: Mobility Transformations and Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, March 2019, Brill

    Professor Michal Biran

  3. In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia,

    Article • Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, February 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Michal Biran

  4. Non-Han Rule in Imperial China

    Article • December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michal Biran

  5. review: food and environment in early and medieval china

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  6. Il-Khanate Empire

    Article • January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michal Biran

  7. Kara-Khitan Khanate (Western Liao)

    Article • January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michal Biran

  8. Karakhanid Khanate

    Article • January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Michal Biran

  9. Mongol Imaginary Conversion: Hulegu's Islamization

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  10. 6 Music in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad: Ṣafī al-Dīn Urmawī and the Ilkhanid Circle of Musicians

    Article • January 2016, Brill

    Professor Michal Biran

  11. The Seljuqs: politics, society and culture

    Article • Mediterranean Historical Review, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Michal Biran

  12. Chaghadaid Central Asia in Mamluk Imagination: Between Islam and the Mongols

    Article • Journal of Asian History, January 2015, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Professor Michal Biran

  13. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change

    Article • December 2014, University of Hawaii Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  14. Introduction: Nomadic Culture

    Article • December 2014, University of Hawaii Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  15. Ethnicity and Identity under Mongol rule: The Kitans in Yuan China

    Article • December 2014, University of Hawaii Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  16. The Mongol Empire: State of the Field:Bibliography

    Article • History Compass, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor Michal Biran

  17. The Mongol Conquests in World History. By Timothy May. London: Reaktion Books-Globalities, 2012. 319 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, May 2013, Duke University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  18. 7. Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370)

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Professor Michal Biran

  19. Liao Dynasty and the Muslim World

    Article • Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Michal Biran

  20. Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols

    Article • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor Michal Biran

  21. The Mongols in Central Asia from Chinggis Khan's invasion to the rise of Temür: the Ögödeid and Chaghadaid realms

    Article • August 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  22. Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Harvard Historical Studies 158. 8 halftones, 1 map. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780674026568 (hbk.). $49.95.

    Article • Itinerario, November 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  23. Chinggis Khan. By Michal Biran. pp. x, 182. Oneworld, Oxford, 2007.

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, April 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  24. MICHAL BIRAN, The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Pp. 295. $80.00 cloth

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  25. The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History. Between China and the Islamic World. By Michal Biran. pp. 279. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005 - The Mongols in Iran: Chinghiz Khan to Uljaytu 1220–1309. By Judith Kolbas. pp. 414. London a...

    Article • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  26. MICHAL BIRAN: The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xvi, 279 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £45.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  27. The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History. Between China and the Islamic World * BY MICHAL BIRAN. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), xvi, 279 pp. Price HB  45.00. ISBN 0-521-84226-3.

    Article • Journal of Islamic Studies, March 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Michal Biran

  28. The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire

    Article • Medieval Encounters, January 2004, Brill

    Professor Michal Biran

  29. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, April 2003, JSTOR

    Professor Michal Biran

  30. The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34)

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, October 2002, JSTOR

    Professor Michal Biran

  31. MICHAL BIRAN, Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia (Richmond, Surrey, U.K.: Curzon, 1997). Pp. 208. $75.00 cloth.

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  32. Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 2000, JSTOR

    Professor Michal Biran

  33. Central Asia - Michal Biran: Qaidu and the rise of the independent Mongol state in Central Asia, x, 198 pp. Richmond: Curzon, 1997. £40.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, October 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran

  34. The Mongol Empire and inter-civilizational exchange

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Michal Biran