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18 - Archaeological Sources

The Ilkhanate

from Volume II Part 2 - Archaeological and Visual Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

By
Tomoko Masuya
Edited by
Michal Biran  and
Hodong Kim
Michal Biran
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hodong Kim
Affiliation:
Seoul National University
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Summary

Under the Ilkhanate (1260–1335), the Mongol state in West Asia, a number of cities and buildings were newly constructed. While some Islamic religious buildings such as mosques and tombs of religious figures have survived as functioning buildings or as ruins above ground, the capital cities and secular buildings established by the Ilkhans have been almost entirely lost, despite extensive contemporaneous information on them. Nevertheless, the remarkable progress in archaeological research since the twentieth century has unearthed several of them, as well as rock-cut structures. Such sites include the observatory in Maragha; three rock-cut structures in western Iran; the Ilkhanid summer quarters at Takht-i Sulaymān; the eighth Ilkhan Öljeitü’s capital city, Sultaniyya; and the charitable foundation called Rabʿ-i Rashīdī founded by Rashīd al-Dīn in the eastern suburb of Tabriz.

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IlkhanateMaraghaTakht-i SulaymānSultaniyyaRabʿ-i RashīdīBuddhist templesobservatorycapital cityIran
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The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire , pp. 1312 - 1322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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