Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps, Genealogical Tables and Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Memoria of the Mongols in Historical and Literary Sources -- Chapter 1 Mythico-Legendary Figures and History between East and West -- Chapter 2 The Mongols and the Legend of Prester John -- Chapter 3 The Historiographical Works of Barhebraeus on the Mongol Period -- Part 2 Shamanism and Islam -- Chapter 5 Shamanism and Islam in Central Asia. Two Antinomic Religious Universes? -- Chapter 6 The Transformation of a Myth of Origins, Genghis Khan and Timur -- Chapter 7 Mongol Law versus Islamic Law. Myth and Reality -- Part 3 Conquering the World Protected by the Tenggeri -- Chapter 8 From 'Non-Negotiation' to an Abortive Alliance. Thoughts on the Diplomatic Exchanges between the Mongols and the Latin West -- Chapter 9 Hülegü's Letters to the Last Ayyubid Ruler of Syria. The Construction of a Model -- Part 4 Mamluks and Ilkhans. The Quest of Legitimacy -- Chapter 10 Legitimizing A Low-Born, Regicide Monarch. Baybars and the Ilkhans -- Chapter 11 The Written and the Spoken Word. Baybars and the Caliphal Investiture Ceremonies in Cairo -- Chapter 12 Ghazan Khan's Invasions of Syria. Polemics on His Conversion to Islam and the Christian Troops in His Army -- Chapter 13 A Religious Response to Ghazan Khan's Invasions of Syria. The Three "Anti-Mongol "fatwās of Ibn Taymiyya -- Epilogue. The Mongol Empire after Genghis Khan -- Maps -- Genealogical Tables -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index.