Table of Contents

The Idea of Iran George Lane, SOAS Concepts of Government and State Formation in Mongol Iran Charles Melville, University of Cambridge Beyond History: Rashid al-Din and Iranian Kingship Stefan Kamola, Eastern Connecticut State University A Glimpse into the Unique Manuscript, the Safineh from Tabriz Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leiden University Images of Iranian Kingship on Secular Ilkhanid Tiles Tomoko Masuya, University of Tokyo Applying a Diachronic Perspective in Reconstructing Precedents for the Illustrations in the Great Mongol Shahnama Olga M. Davidson, Boston University The Mausoleum of Uljaytu and the Citadel of Sul'aniyya Marco G. Brambilla, MGBDomus The Maragha School and its Impact on Post-Mongol Science in the Islamic world Tofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, Riverside The Iranian Interlude: from Mongol Decline to Tamerlane’s Invasion Shivan Mahendrarajah, University of St. Andrews Sufism in late Mongol and early Timurid Persia from ‘Ala’ al-Dawla Simnani (d. 736/1326) to Shah Qasim Anvar (d. 837/1434) Leonard Lewisohn, University of Exeter Architecture in the Interregnum: the Mozaffarid, Jalayerid and Kartid Contributions Bernard O'Kane, American University in Cairo Persian Narrative Poetry in the Eighth/Fourteenth - early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries and the Legacy of Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh’ Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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The eighth volume in the impressive "Idea of Iran" series, this new collection follows the complexities surrounding the cultural reinvention of Iran after the Mongol invasions and covers the collapse of Ilkhanid rule.

About the Author

Sussan Babaie is Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has previously taught and resesarched at Smith College, the University of Michigan and as the Allianz Visiting Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.Her exhibitions include the guest-curated Strolling in Isfahan at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University and she is the co-editor of Persian Kingship and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and the award-winning monograph, Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran.