De Nicola, Bruno. 2017. Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474415477 [Book]

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Abstract or Description

The book 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.

Item Type:	Book
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_627004
Keywords:	Iran, women, Mongol Empire, Islamic History, Medieval History, nomadic societies
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	History
Date:	24 February 2017
Item ID:	22045
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2017 14:02
Last Modified:	26 Nov 2020 14:43
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/22045

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