Table of Contents

1. The Sources 2. Divine Punishment or God's Secret Intent? 3. Baghdad and its Aftermath 4. The Uneasy Borders a. Abaqa and the West b. Berke Khan and the North c. Baraq Khan and the East 5. The Provinces a. Kirman b. Shiraz c. Herat 6. The Juwaynis 7. Kwaja Nasír al-Din Tusi 8. Poets, Sufis, and Qalandars 9. Return of a King

About the Author

After spending 20 years living, working and seeking adventure throughout the Middle East and then later in the Far East, during which years he worked as an English teacher, a freelance writer and journalist and as a businessman, George Lane returned to his more concentrated academic life in 1991 when he took up work and studies at SOAS. Since then he has been concerned primarily with Medieval Islamic History and with Iran and Central Asia in particular. George Lane has two young children with whom he lives with his wife in Dulwich, S. E. London.

Reviews

'No doubt it will be a while before such a comprehensive study of these years of Ilkhanate is again attempted, not least because Lane has written such a rich and provocative book that brings together much relevant material neglected in standard narrative accounts.' - Journal of School of Oriental and African Studies