%0 Book Section %B Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change . “Perspectives on the Global Past %D 2015 %T The Impact of the Mongols on the History of Syria: Politics, Society and Culture %A Reuven Amitai %B Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change . “Perspectives on the Global Past %I University of Hawai’i Press %C Honolulu %P 228-251 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Kurt Franz and Wolfgang Holzwarth, eds. Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period %D 2015 %T Ibn Khaldun on Mongol Military Might %A Reuven Amitai %B Kurt Franz and Wolfgang Holzwarth, eds. Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period %I Reichert %C Wiesbaden %P 191-206 %G eng %0 Book %D 2015 %T Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors %E Reuven Amitai %E Michal Biran %X

Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger—“barbarians,” in fact—their impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social, demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian civilizations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs, technologies, and physical artifacts, nomads were frequently active contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their active choices and initiatives helped set the cultural and intellectual agenda of the lands they ruled and beyond.

This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads played the role of “agents of cultural change.” The beginning chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played in the history of the Old World. It conveys a sense of the complex and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history.

Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as active promoters of cultural exchange within a vast and varied region. It makes available important original scholarship on the new turn in the study of the Mongol empire and on relations between the nomadic and sedentary worlds.

%I University of Hawai’i Press %C Honolulu %P x + 345 %G eng %U http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9229-9780824839789.aspx %0 Book Section %B Gérard Dédéyan and Claude Mutafian, eds. La Méditerranée des Arméniens, XII e -XV e siècle %D 2014 %T Dangerous Liaisons: Armenian-Mongol-Mamluk Relations (1260- 1292) %A Reuven Amitai %B Gérard Dédéyan and Claude Mutafian, eds. La Méditerranée des Arméniens, XII e -XV e siècle %I Geuthner %C Paris %P 191-206 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Judith Pfeiffer, ed. Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13 th -15 th Century Tabriz %D 2014 %T Hülegü and His Wise Men: Topos or Reality? %A Reuven Amitai %B Judith Pfeiffer, ed. Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13 th -15 th Century Tabriz %I Brill %C Leiden and Boston %P 15-34 %G eng %0 Conference Proceedings %B Chinggis Khan and Globalization %D 2014 %T The Mongols as Seen by the Arabic Sources: The View from across Asia %A Reuven Amitai %B Chinggis Khan and Globalization %I Mongolian Academy of Sciences %C Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia %P 125-131 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert and Jenny Rahel Oesterle, eds. Cultural Brokers between Religions: Border Crossers and Experts at Mediterranean Courts %D 2013 %T Jews at the Mongol Court in Iran: Cultural Brokers or Minor Actors in a Cultural Boom? %A Reuven Amitai %B Marc von der Höh, Nikolas Jaspert and Jenny Rahel Oesterle, eds. Cultural Brokers between Religions: Border Crossers and Experts at Mediterranean Courts %I Wilhelm Fink and Ferdinand Schöningh %C Paderborn %P 33-45 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, eds. Rashid al-Din, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran %D 2013 %T Rashīd al-Dīn as an Historian of the Mamluks %A Reuven Amitai %B Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, eds. Rashid al-Din, Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran %I The Warburg Institute and Nino Aragno Editore %C London and Turin %P 71-88 %G eng %0 Book %D 2013 %T Holy War and Rapprochement: Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335) %A Reuven Amitai %X

The sixty year struggle (1260-1320) between the Mamluk Sultanate of Syria and Egypt and the Ilkhanate, the Mongol realm in Iran and the surrounding countries, had a profound impact on the region’s ruling elites and the general population, as well as on neighboring countries and beyond. It is possible to speak of a thirteenth century “world war”: on one side were arrayed the Mamluks and the Mongol Golden Horde of southern Russia, at times Genoa and the Byzantine empire, while on the other side we find the Ilkhanate, the Venetians (albeit still trading with the Mamluks), the states of western Europe, the Papacy, the Armenians of both the Caucasus and Cilicia, and Georgia. To these we could add minor, but still important actors: the Bedouin of Syria, the Seljuqs of Rum (Anatolia), the Turcoman of that country, and even more. Far away, the Mongols of Central Asia and the Great Khan in China also had an impact on affairs along the Mediterranean coast and southwest Asia. The present volume is based on four lectures given at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris in February 2007, and first provides an overview of the military struggle between these two regional powers, continues with a detailed discussion of the ideological posturing and sparring between them – both before and after the conversion of the Mongols to Islam in the 1290s, and finally reviews and compares how the Mamluks and Mongols presented themselves to the local, mainly Muslim, populations that they ruled. The book provides an analysis of an important chapter in Middle Eastern, Asian and world history.

%I Brepols %C Turnhout %P 149 %G eng %U http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503531526-1 %0 Book Section %B Robert Hillenbrand, Firuza Abdullaeva and Andrew Peacock, eds. Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia %D 2013 %T Mamluks, Franks and Mongols: A Necessary but Impossible Triangle %A Reuven Amitai %X

Charles Melville Festschrift

%B Robert Hillenbrand, Firuza Abdullaeva and Andrew Peacock, eds. Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia %I I.B. Tauris %C London %P 137-146 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Yvonne Freidman and Joseph Drory, eds. The History of Jerusalem: The Mamluk Period (1260-1517) %D 2012 %T The Mamluk State and Jerusalem [Hebrew] %A Reuven Amitai %B Yvonne Freidman and Joseph Drory, eds. The History of Jerusalem: The Mamluk Period (1260-1517) %I Yad Izhaq Ben-Zvi %C Jerusalem %P 3-32 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Stefan Leder, ed. Crossroads between Latin Europe and the Near East: Frankish Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean (12th to 14th Centuries) %D 2011 %T Dealing with Reality: Early Mamluk Military Policy and the Allocation of Resources %A Reuven Amitai %B Stefan Leder, ed. Crossroads between Latin Europe and the Near East: Frankish Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean (12th to 14th Centuries) %I Ergon Verlag %C Würzburg %P 127-144 %G eng %0 Book Section %B In Frank Krämer, Katharina Schmidt and Julika Sinder, eds. Historicizing the “ Beyond”. The Mongolian Invasion as a New Dimension of Violence? %D 2011 %T Im Westen nichts Neues ? Re-ex amining Hülegü’s Offensive into the Jazīra and Northern 10 Syria in Light of Recent Research %A Reuven Amitai %B In Frank Krämer, Katharina Schmidt and Julika Sinder, eds. Historicizing the “ Beyond”. The Mongolian Invasion as a New Dimension of Violence? %I UniversitätverlagWinter Heidelberg %C Heidelberg %P 83-96 %G eng %0 Book Section %B David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam , vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries %D 2010 %T Armies and their Economic Basis in Iran and the Surrounding Lands, ca. 1000 -1500 C.E. %A Reuven Amitai %B David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam , vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries %I Cambridge University Press %C Cambridge %P 539-560 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Mamluk Studies Review %D 2008 %T Mamluks of Mongol Origin and their Role in Early Mamluk Political Life %A Reuven Amitai %B Mamluk Studies Review %V 12 %P 119-137 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Oriente Moderno %D 2008 %T Diplomacy and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Re-examination of the Mamluk-Byzantine-Genoese Triangle in the Late Thirteenth Century in Light of the Existing Early Correspondence %A Reuven Amitai %X

Special issue entitled: Les relations diplomatiques entre le monde musulman et l’occident latin (XII e -XVI e siècle) , ed. Denise Aigle and Pascal Buresi

%B Oriente Moderno %V 87 %P 349-368 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam %D 2007 %T An Arabic Biographical Notice of Kitbughā, the Mongol General Defeated at 'Ayn Jālūt %A Reuven Amitai %X

Classical and South Asian Islam: Essays in Honour of Yohanan Friedmann

%B Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam %V 33 %P 219-234 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Arieh Shmueletitz, editor. Zirat ha-Krav: Kravot Makhra`im bi-Toldot Eretz-Yisrael %D 2007 %T The Battle of `Ayn Jalut (A.D. 1260) [in Hebrew] %A Reuven Amitai %B Arieh Shmueletitz, editor. Zirat ha-Krav: Kravot Makhra`im bi-Toldot Eretz-Yisrael %I Ministry of Defense %C Tel Aviv %G eng %0 Book Section %B Israel Roll, Oren Tal and Michael Winter, eds. The Encounter of Crusaders and Muslims in Palestine as Reflected in Arsuf, Sayyiduna `Ali and Other Coastal Sites %D 2007 %T The Conquest of Arsūf by Baybars: Political and Military Aspects [in Hebrew] %A Reuven Amitai %B Israel Roll, Oren Tal and Michael Winter, eds. The Encounter of Crusaders and Muslims in Palestine as Reflected in Arsuf, Sayyiduna `Ali and Other Coastal Sites %I Kibbutz HaMeuchad Press %C Tel Aviv %G eng %0 Book Section %B Franco Cardini and Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, editors. Quel mar che la terra inghirlanda: In Ricordo di Marco Tangheroni %D 2007 %T Franks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1047 %A Reuven Amitai %A B. Z. Kedar %B Franco Cardini and Maria Luisa Ceccarelli Lemut, editors. Quel mar che la terra inghirlanda: In Ricordo di Marco Tangheroni %I Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche and PACINIeditore %C Pisa %V 2 %P 465-468 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Zentralasiatische Studien %D 2007 %T A Mongol Governor of al-Karak in Jordan?: A Re-examination of an Old Document in Mongolian and Arabic %A Reuven Amitai %B Zentralasiatische Studien %V 36 %P 263-275 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith, eds. In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar %D 2007 %T Mongol Provincial Administration: Syria in 1260 as a Case- Study %A Reuven Amitai %B Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith, eds. In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar %I Ashgate %C Aldershot %P 117-143 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B Nimrod Goren and Amikam Nachman (Eds.), The Importance of Being European. Turkey, the EU and the Middle East %D 2007 %T The Turks in the Middle East: From the Middle Ages to Contemporary Concerns %A Reuven Amitai %B Nimrod Goren and Amikam Nachman (Eds.), The Importance of Being European. Turkey, the EU and the Middle East %I The European Forum at the Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %V 4 %P 154-164 %G eng %0 Book %D 2007 %T Islam in Europe: Case Studies, Comparisons & Overviews %E Reuven Amitai %E Amikam Nachmani %X

On 10-11 December 2006, the European Forum in cooperation with the Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University, and with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, held an international conference on “Islam in Europe: Eurabia or European Islam”. This publication is the outcome of that conference.

%I The European Forum at the Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %P 162 %G eng %U http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/units.php?cat=5317&incat=2981 %0 Book %D 2007 %T The Mongols in the Islamic Lands: Studies in the History of the Ilkhanate %A Reuven Amitai %X

The Mongols had a profound effect on the regions that they ruled in the eastern Muslim world, from the first Mongol invasion in 1219 through the breakup of the Ilkhanate in 1335 and the various, short-lived successor states. The influence of their rule – positive as well as negative – on the peoples of Iran and the neighboring countries can be seen in such diverse areas as demography, economics, art and other types of material culture, intellectual and religious life, military affairs, government, etc. This book brings together a series of studies that deal with some of these aspects in the state established around 1260 by Hülegü, grandson of Chinggis Khan: the development of the land-tenure system; the title ilkhan; the use of Arabic sources for the history of the Ilkhanate; the eventual conversion of the Mongols to Islam; and – most prominently – the ongoing war with the Mamluk Sultanate to the west.

%I Ashgate %C Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT %P 372 %G eng %U https://www.routledge.com/The-Mongols-in-the-Islamic-Lands-Studies-in-the-History-of-the-Ilkhanate/Amitai/p/book/9780754659143 %0 Book Section %B Studies in the History of Muslim Peoples: Papers Presented at a Conference in Memory of David Ayalon %D 2006 %T The Conversion of Tegüder Ilkhan to Islam [in Hebrew] %A Reuven Amitai %B Studies in the History of Muslim Peoples: Papers Presented at a Conference in Memory of David Ayalon %I Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities %C Jerusalem %P 83-102 %G eng %0 Book Section %B hilip Morgan and Christopher Brown, editors. Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age %D 2006 %T The Mamluk Institution: 1000 Years of Military Slavery in the Islamic World %A Reuven Amitai %B hilip Morgan and Christopher Brown, editors. Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age %I Yale University Press %C New Haven %P 40-78 %G eng %0 Book Section %B John Pryor, editor. Logistics of War in the Age of the Crusades %D 2006 %T Some More Thoughts on the Logistics of the Mongol -Mamluk War (with Special Reference to the Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar) %A Reuven Amitai %B John Pryor, editor. Logistics of War in the Age of the Crusades %I Ashgate %C Aldershot %P 25-42 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, editors, Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World %D 2005 %T Introduction %A Reuven Amitai %A Michal Biran %B Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, editors, Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World %I Brill %C Leiden %P 1-11 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, editors. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World %D 2005 %T The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War %A Reuven Amitai %B Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, editors. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World %I Brill %C Leiden %P 359-390 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Mamluk Studies Review %D 2005 %T The Conquest of Arsūf by Baybars: Political and Military Aspects %A Reuven Amitai %B Mamluk Studies Review %V 9 %P 61-83 %G eng %0 Book Section %B David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon, editors. Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter %D 2005 %T Some Remarks on the Inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa %A Reuven Amitai %B David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon, editors. Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter %I Routledge %C London and New York %P 45-53 %G eng %0 Book %D 2005 %T Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World %E Reuven Amitai %E Michal Biran %X

The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world.

%I Brill %C Leiden %P xx + 550 %G eng %U http://www.brill.com/mongols-turks-and-others %0 Book Section %B Amalia Levanoni and Michael Winter, editors. The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society %D 2004 %T The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties %A Reuven Amitai %B Amalia Levanoni and Michael Winter, editors. The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society %I Brill %C Leiden %P 21-41 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of the American Oriental Society %D 2004 %T Did Chinggis Khan have a Jewish Teacher? An Examination of an Early Fourteenth Century Arabic Text %A Reuven Amitai %B Journal of the American Oriental Society %V 124 %P 691-705 %G eng %N 4 %0 Journal Article %J Mamluk Studies Review %D 2003 %T Al -Maqrizi as a Historian of the Early Mamluk Sultanate (or: Is al-Maqrizi an Unrecognized Historigraphical Villian?) %A Reuven Amitai %B Mamluk Studies Review %V 7 %P 99-118 %G eng %N 2 %0 Book Section %B Chase F. Robinson, editor. Texts, Documents and Artifacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards %D 2003 %T Foot Soldiers, Militiamen and Volunteers in the Early Mamluk Army %A Reuven Amitai %B Chase F. Robinson, editor. Texts, Documents and Artifacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards %I Brill %C Leiden %P 232-249 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Nicola Di Cosmo, editor. Warfare in Inner Asian History %D 2002 %T Whither the Ilkhanid Army? Ghazan’s First Campaign into Syria (1299 - 1300) %A Reuven Amitai %B Nicola Di Cosmo, editor. Warfare in Inner Asian History %I Brill %C Leiden %P 221-264 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Hugh Kennedy, editor. Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c.950-1800) %D 2001 %T Al-Nuwayri as a Historian of the Mongols %A Reuven Amitai %B Hugh Kennedy, editor. Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c.950-1800) %I Brill %C Leiden %P 23-36 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Israel Antiquities Authority Reports %D 2001 %T An Arabic Inscription at al-Subayba (Qal`at Namrud) from the Reign of Sultan Baybars %A Reuven Amitai %B Israel Antiquities Authority Reports %I Israel Antiquities Authority %C Jerusalem %V 11 %P 109-123 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Michael Gervers and James M. Powell, editors. Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades %D 2001 %T Edward of England and Abagha Ilkhan: A Reexamination of a Failed Attempt at Mongol- Frankish Cooperation %A Reuven Amitai %X

notes: 160-163

%B Michael Gervers and James M. Powell, editors. Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades %I Syracuse University Press %C Syracuse, NY %P 75-82 %G eng %0 Book Section %B André Wink and Anatoly M. Khazanov, editors. Nomads in the Sedentary World %D 2001 %T Turco-Mongolian Nomads and the iqṭā` System in the Islamic Middle East (1000-1400 AD) %A Reuven Amitai %B André Wink and Anatoly M. Khazanov, editors. Nomads in the Sedentary World %I Curzon Press %C London %P 152-171 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Naomi Standen and Daniel Power, editors. Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands c. 700-1700 %D 1999 %T Northern Syria between the Mongols and Mamluks: Political Boundary, Military Frontier and Ethnic Affinity %A Reuven Amitai %B Naomi Standen and Daniel Power, editors. Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands c. 700-1700 %I Macmillan Press %C London %P 128-52 %G eng %0 Book %D 1999 %T The Mongol Empire and its Legacy %E Reuven Amitai %E David O. Morgan %X

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.

%I Brill %C Leiden %P xiv, 364 pp. %G eng %U http://www.brill.com/mongol-empire-and-its-legacy %0 Book Section %B Yaakov Lev, editor. War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries %D 1997 %T The Mamluk Officer Class during the Reign of Sultan Baybars %A Reuven Amitai %B Yaakov Lev, editor. War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries %I Brill %C Leiden %P 267-300 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of the American Oriental Society %D 1996 %T The Fall and Rise of the `Abbasid Caliphate %A Reuven Amitai %X

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).

%B Journal of the American Oriental Society %V 116 %P 487-494 %G eng %N 3 %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies %D 1996 %T Ghazan, Islam and Mongol Tradition: A View from the Mamluk Sultanate %A Reuven Amitai %X

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.

%B Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies %V 59 %P 1-10 %G eng %0 Book Section %B J. Rab i and T. Fitzherbert, editors. The Court of the Il-khans (= Oxford Studies in Islamic Art , vol. XII) %D 1996 %T New Material from the Mamluk Sources for the Biography of Rashid al -Din %A Reuven Amitai %B J. Rab i and T. Fitzherbert, editors. The Court of the Il-khans (= Oxford Studies in Islamic Art , vol. XII) %I Oxford University Press %C Oxford %P 23-37 %G eng %0 Book %D 1995 %T Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War 1260-1281 %A Reuven Amitai %X

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.

%I Cambridge University Press %C Cambridge MA %P xiv + 272 %G eng %U http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780511885532 %0 Journal Article %J Mongolica %D 1994 %T Arabic Sources for the History of the Mongol Empire %A Reuven Amitai %X

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

%B Mongolica %V 5 %P 99-105 %G eng %N 20 %0 Journal Article %J Central Asiatic Journal %D 1994 %T An Exchange of Letters in Arabic between Abaγa Ilkhan and Sultan Baybars (A.H. 667 / A.D. 1268- 9) %A Reuven Amitai %B Central Asiatic Journal %V 38 %P 11-33 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Israel Exploration Journal %D 1994 %T A Fourteenth Century Mamluk Inscription from Rural Palestine %A Reuven Amitai %B Israel Exploration Journal %V 44 %P 234-42 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Tārīḫ (Philadelphia) %D 1992 %T `Ayn Jālūt Revisited %A Reuven Amitai %X

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

%B Tārīḫ (Philadelphia) %V 2 %P 119-150 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Mediterranean Historical Review %D 1992 %T Mamluk Perceptions of the Mongol - Frankish Rapprochement %A Reuven Amitai %B Mediterranean Historical Review %V 7 %P 50-65 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Joseph Drory, ed. Palestine in the Mamluk Period %D 1992 %T Mongol Raids into Palestine (A.D. 1260 and 1300) [in Hebrew] %A Reuven Amitai %B Joseph Drory, ed. Palestine in the Mamluk Period %I Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi %C Jerusalem %P 43-63 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society %D 1991 %T Evidence for the Early Use of the Title Ilkhan among the Mongols %A Reuven Amitai %B Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society %V 3 %P 353-362 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Israel Numismatic Journal %D 1991 %T Two Notes on the Protocol on Hülegü’s Coinage %A Reuven Amitai %A Nitzan Amitai-Preiss %B Israel Numismatic Journal %V 10 %P 117-128 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Al-Masaq: Studie Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea %D 1990 %T In the Aftermath of `Ayn Jalut: The Beginnings of the Mamluk-Ilkhanid Cold War %A Reuven Amitai %B Al-Masaq: Studie Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea %V 3 %P 1-21 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Studia Islamica %D 1990 %T The Remaking of the Military Elite of Mamluk Egypt by al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qalawun %A Reuven Amitai %B Studia Islamica %V 72 %P 145-163 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Dumbarton Oaks Papers %D 1989 %T Notes on the Ayyubid Inscriptions at al-Subayba (Qal`at Nimrud) %A Reuven Amitai %B Dumbarton Oaks Papers %V 43 %P 113-119 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Asian and African Studies %D 1988 %T Mamluk Espionage among Mongols and Franks %A Reuven Amitai %B Asian and African Studies %V 22 %P 173-181 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society %D 1987 %T Mongol Raids into Palestine (A.D. 1260 and 1300) %A Reuven Amitai %B Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society %P 236-255 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Studies in Islamic History and Civilization in Honour of Professor David Ayalon %D 1986 %T The Rise and Fall of the Mamluk Institution: A Summary of David Ayalon’s Works %A Reuven Amitai %B Studies in Islamic History and Civilization in Honour of Professor David Ayalon %I Brill %C Leiden %P 19-30 %G eng