Ilkhanate

Ilkhanate
ایل خانان
1256–1335[1]
The Ilkhanate under Ghazan
The Ilkhanate under Ghazan
Status
Capital
Common languages
Religion
GovernmentMonarchy
Khan 
• 1256–1265
Hulagu Khan
• 1316–1335
Abu Sa'id
Area
1310 est.[6][7]3,750,000 km2 (1,450,000 sq mi)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Mongol Empire
Abbasid Caliphate
Nizari Ismaili state
Sultanate of Rum
Kingdom of Georgia
Qutlugh-Khanids
Ayyubid dynasty
Salghurids
Anatolian beyliks
Jalayirids
Chobanids
Muzaffarids
Kartids
Sarbadars
Injuids
Mihrabanids
Eretnids
Kingdom of Georgia
Anatolian beyliks
Mamluks
Sutayids

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, also known as the Ilkhanids (Persian: ایلخانان, romanizedĪlkhānān), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus (lit.'people or state of Hülegü'),[8] was a Mongol khanate established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. The Ilkhanid realm was officially known as the Land of Iran or simply Iran.[9][10] It was established after Hülegü, the son of Tolui and grandson of Genghis Khan, inherited the West Asian part of the Mongol Empire after his brother Möngke Khan died in 1259.

The Ilkhanate's core territory lies in what is now part of the countries of Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. At its greatest extent, the Ilkhanate also included parts of modern Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, part of modern Dagestan, and part of modern Tajikistan. Later Ilkhanate rulers, beginning with Ghazan in 1295, converted to Islam. In the 1330s, the Ilkhanate was ravaged by the Black Death. The last ilkhan, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, died in 1335, after which the Ilkhanate disintegrated.

The Ilkhanid rulers, although of non-Iranian origin, tried to advertise their authority by tying themselves to the Iranian past, and they recruited historians to present the Mongols as heirs to the Sasanian Empire (224–651).[11]

  1. ^ Biran, Michal (2016). "Il-Khanate Empire". In Dalziel, N.; MacKenzie, J. M. (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Empire. p. 1. doi:10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe362. ISBN 978-1-118-44064-3.
  2. ^ Fragner 2006, pp. 78–79.
  3. ^ Fragner 2006, pp. 78.
  4. ^ Badiee 1984, p. 97.
  5. ^ Vásáry 2016, p. 149.
  6. ^ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires". Journal of World-Systems Research. 12 (2): 223. ISSN 1076-156X. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  7. ^ Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 496. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. JSTOR 2600793.
  8. ^ Biran, Michael (2016). Dalziel, N.; MacKenzie, J. M. (eds.). "Il-Khanate Empire". The Encyclopedia of Empire: 1–6. doi:10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe362. ISBN 9781118455074.
  9. ^ Danilenko, Nadja (2020). "In Persian, Please! The Translations of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms". Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms. Brill. p. 101. Connecting to īrān as illustrated in the Shāhnāma, 'land of Iran' rose to the official name for the Ilkhanid realm.
  10. ^ Ashraf, Ahmad (2006). "Iranian Identity iii. Medieval Islamic Period". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XIII/5: Iran X. Religions in Iran–Iraq V. Safavid period. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 507–522. ISBN 978-0-933273-93-1. ... the Mongol and Timurid phase, during which the name 'Iran' was used for the dynastic realm and a pre-modern ethno-national history of Iranian dynasties was arranged.
  11. ^ Danilenko, Nadja (2020). "In Persian, Please! The Translations of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms". Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms. Brill. pp. 94–95.

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