Women In Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335
by Bruno De Nicola /
2017 / English / PDF
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Bruno de Nicola investigates the development of women's status in
the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the
end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach,
the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and
contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol
society. The arrangement serves as a starting point from where to
draw comparison with the status of Mongol women in the later
period. Exploring patterns of continuity and transformation in the
status of these women in different periods of the Mongol Empire as
it expanded westwards into the Islamic world, the book offers a
view on the transformation of a nomadic-shamanist society from its
original homeland in Mongolia to its settlement in the mostly
sedentary-Muslim Iran in the mid-13th century.
Bruno de Nicola investigates the development of women's status in
the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the
end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach,
the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and
contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol
society. The arrangement serves as a starting point from where to
draw comparison with the status of Mongol women in the later
period. Exploring patterns of continuity and transformation in the
status of these women in different periods of the Mongol Empire as
it expanded westwards into the Islamic world, the book offers a
view on the transformation of a nomadic-shamanist society from its
original homeland in Mongolia to its settlement in the mostly
sedentary-Muslim Iran in the mid-13th century.