Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on transliterations and dates -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Culture and Commerce in the Mongol World Empire -- Cultural Transmission and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: Notes from the Biographical Dictionary of lbn al-Fuwatī -- Diplomatic Missions and Gifts Exchanged by Mamluks and Ilkhans -- Jochid Luxury Metalwork: Issues of Genesis and Development -- The Maritime Trade of Kish During the Mongol Period -- Ilkhanid Rule and Its Contributions to Iranian Political Culture -- Lifestyles at the Courts of the Ruling Elite -- Avraga Site: The 'Great Ordū' of Genghis Khan -- The Ilkhanid Palace at Takht-i Sulayman: Excavation Results -- Hülegü Moves West: High Living and Heartbreak on the Road to Baghdad -- The Keshig in Iran: The Survival of the Royal Mongol Household -- The Arts of the Book in Ilkhanid Iran -- Calligraphers, Illuminators, and Painters in the Ilkhanid Scriptorium -- Erudition Exalted: The Double Frontispiece to the Epistles of the Sincere Brethren -- In the Beginning: Frontispieces and Front Matter in Ilkhanid and Injuid Manuscripts -- Patronage of the Arts of the Book under the Injuids of Shiraz -- Thoughts on a Shāhnāma Legacy of the Fourteenth Century: Four Īnjū Manuscripts and the Great Mongol Shāhnāma -- The Arts and Artistic Interchange -- Paper: The Transformative Medium in Ilkhanid Art -- Chinese Motifs in Thirteenth-Century Armenian Art: The Mongol Connection -- Pottery under the Mongols -- Persian Poetry on Ilkhanid Art and Architecture -- State and Religion in Ilkhanid Iran -- Horoscopes and Planetary Theory: Ilkhanid Patronage of Astronomers.

Reflections on a 'Double Rapprochement': Conversion to Islam among the Mongol Elite during the Early Ilkhanate -- Religious Diversity under Ilkhanid Rule c. 1300 as Reflected in the Freer Bal'amī -- The Mongol Legacy of Persian Farmāns -- Concluding Remarks -- The Mongol Empire in World History -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Color plates -- Black and white figures -- Index.