Publications

2001
Amitai, Reuven. “Edward of England and Abagha Ilkhan: A Reexamination of a Failed Attempt at Mongol- Frankish Cooperation.” In Michael Gervers and James M. Powell, editors. Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades, 75-82. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001.Abstract

notes: 160-163

Amitai, Reuven. “Turco-Mongolian Nomads and the iqṭā` System in the Islamic Middle East (1000-1400 AD).” In André Wink and Anatoly M. Khazanov, editors. Nomads in the Sedentary World, 152-171. London: Curzon Press, 2001.
1999
Amitai, Reuven. “Northern Syria between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier and Ethnic Affinity.” In Naomi Standen and Daniel Power, editors. Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands c. 700-1700, 128-52. London: Macmillan Press, 1999.
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their peoples. The papers in this volume present new perspectives on the establishment of the Mongol empire, Mongol rule in the eastern Islamic world, Central Asia and China, and the legacy of this rule. The various authors approach these subjects from the view of political, military, social, cultural and intellectual history.

1997
Amitai, Reuven. “The Mamluk Officer Class during the Reign of Sultan Baybars.” In Yaakov Lev, editor. War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries, 267-300. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
1996
Amitai, Reuven. “The Fall and Rise of the `Abbasid Caliphate.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 116, no. 3 (1996): 487-494.Abstract

Review article of S. Heidemann, Das Aleppiner Kalifat (AD 1261): vom Ende des Kalifates in Bagdad über Aleppo zu den Restaurationen in Kairo (Leiden, 1994).

Amitai, Reuven. “Ghazan, Islam and Mongol Tradition: A View from the Mamluk Sultanate.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59 (1996): 1-10.Abstract

Reprinted in G.R. Hawting, editor. Muslims, Mongols and Crusaders: An Anthology of Articles Published by the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Persian translation: “Ghāzān, islām va sunnat - i mughūl az dīd - i salāṭ in- i mamlūk,” in Hujūm -i mughūl bi īrān va payāmad - hā - yi ān . Tehran: Dānishgāh - i Shahīd - i Bihishtī, 1379. 1287-1315.

Amitai, Reuven. “New Material from the Mamluk Sources for the Biography of Rashid al -Din.” In J. Rab i and T. Fitzherbert, editors. The Court of the Il-khans (= Oxford Studies in Islamic Art , vol. XII), 23-37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
1995
Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War 1260-1281
Amitai, Reuven. Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War 1260-1281. Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Publisher's VersionAbstract

For sixty years, from 1260 to 1323, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria was at war with the Ilkhanid Mongols based in Persia. This is the first comprehensive study of the political and military aspects of the early years of the war, from the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281. In between these campaigns, the Mamluk-Ilkhanid struggle was continued in the manner of a 'cold war' with both sides involved in border skirmishes, diplomatic manoeuvres, and espionage. Here, as in the major battles, the Mamluks usually maintained the upper hand, establishing themselves as the foremost Muslim power at the time. By drawing on previously untapped Persian and Arabic sources, the author sheds new light on the confrontation, examining the war within the context of Mongol/Mamluk relations with the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West and the Crusading states.

1994
Amitai, Reuven. “Arabic Sources for the History of the Mongol Empire.” Mongolica 5, no. 20 (1994): 99-105.Abstract

The Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Mongolists (Ulaan Baatar, 11-15 August 1992).

Amitai, Reuven. “An Exchange of Letters in Arabic between Abaγa Ilkhan and Sultan Baybars (A.H. 667 / A.D. 1268- 9).” Central Asiatic Journal 38 (1994): 11-33.
Amitai, Reuven. “A Fourteenth Century Mamluk Inscription from Rural Palestine.” Israel Exploration Journal 44 (1994): 234-42.
1992
Amitai, Reuven. “`Ayn Jālūt Revisited.” Tārīḫ (Philadelphia) 2 (1992): 119-150.Abstract

Reprinted in John France (Ed.), Medieval Warfare 1000-1300, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Amitai, Reuven. “Mamluk Perceptions of the Mongol - Frankish Rapprochement.” Mediterranean Historical Review 7 (1992): 50-65.
Amitai, Reuven. “Mongol Raids into Palestine (A.D. 1260 and 1300) [in Hebrew].” In Joseph Drory, ed. Palestine in the Mamluk Period, 43-63. Jerusalem: Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi, 1992.
1991
Amitai, Reuven. “Evidence for the Early Use of the Title Ilkhan among the Mongols.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, no. 1 (1991): 353-362.
Amitai, Reuven, and Nitzan Amitai-Preiss. “Two Notes on the Protocol on Hülegü’s Coinage.” Israel Numismatic Journal 10 (1991): 117-128.
1990
Amitai, Reuven. “In the Aftermath of `Ayn Jalut: The Beginnings of the Mamluk-Ilkhanid Cold War.” Al-Masaq: Studie Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea 3 (1990): 1-21.
Amitai, Reuven. “The Remaking of the Military Elite of Mamluk Egypt by al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qalawun.” Studia Islamica 72 (1990): 145-163.
1989
Amitai, Reuven. “Notes on the Ayyubid Inscriptions at al-Subayba (Qal`at Nimrud).” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 43 (1989): 113-119.

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