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

What is it about?

The study reconstructs the scholarly map of Mongol Central Asia (ca. 1220-1370) as viewed in the biographical literature of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517) in Egypt in Syria: it highlights the places in Central Asia that were known for their scholarly input and compares this mental map with the geographical knowledge that was available in the Sultanate about this region and with the scholarly maps of Mongol Central Asia that existed in the Ilkhanate and in Yuan China

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Why is it important?

Important for cross-cultural contacts between Muslim and Mongols; give new historical details on the pooly-studied Chaghadaid Khanate; has implication on the study of the intellectual history of the Mamluk Sultanate.