Introduction À l'Histoire Des Mongols de Fadl Allah Rashid Ed-Din

by Edgard Blochet and Charles Melville

Edgard Blochet (1870-1937), the French orientalist, left his mark in several areas of Middle Eastern and Asian studies. In 1910 his introduction to Rashīd al-Dīn's Jāmi' al-tawārīkh was published as volume XII in the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series. The Jāmi' al-tawārīkh has been described as the first 'world history'; written at the start of the fourteenth century, in the Mongol Ilkhanate in Persia, it describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190972484X
• ISBN13: 9781909724846
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"