THE EURASIAN STEPPE AND IRAN:

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1 Syllabus THE EURASIAN STEPPE AND IRAN: Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: islamic & middle east stud. Academic year: 0 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Prof Reuven Amitai Coordinator reuven.amitai@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday, 15:30-16:30 Teaching Staff: Prof Reuven Amitai page 1 / 7

2 Course/Module description: Since ancient times, there have existed complicated and intensive relations between the peoples of Iran and the nomads of the Eurasian Steppe. This course will focus on the millennium of these relations from the eve of the Arab conquest to the early modern period, with a certain emphasis on the period between Among the subjects that we will deal with: the military role of the Turks in the region; the islamization of the Turks; the coming of the Seljuqs and their political, cultural and demographic influence; the Mongols: continuity and change in Greater Iran; the post-mongol order. Course/Module aims: To teach about an important chapter in the pre-modern Middle East, certainly in Iran, with implications until today. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: The students will learn in depth about an important chapter in the regions history. They will gain further skills in critical reading of original sources and modern scholarship, and the historical method as applied in Middle Eastern Studies. Attendance requirements(%): 80% (i.e., 11 lessons out of 14) Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: The lessons will be a mixture of lectures by the teachers, discussions of studies read by the students, presentations by students and reading of sources (in translation and in original language if possible). Course/Module Content: 1. Organization of course; geographical and Historical background I: the Eurasian Steppe in ancient times 2. Historical background II: Ancient Iran 3. The coming of Islam to Iran, and the encounter with the nomads of Eurasia: Turks, Khazars and more 4. Ongoing contacts and conflicts: ; military slavery; conversion of the Turks; the Qara-Khanids; the Ghaznawids page 2 / 7

3 5. Iran and Turan: the Shahnamah and its relevancy to the Middle Ages and to Modern Iran 6. The Steppe comes to Iran 1: the Seljuqs and the Turkmen 7. Turks and Iranians: politics, society, economics and culture; Nizam al-mulk 8. The Steppe comes to Iran 2: the Mongols 9. The creation of new forms of politics, society and culture 10. Not quite Steppe and not quite Iran: Timur and his successors 11. The Culture of the Timurids: Art and architecture, literature 12. Further Developments and Hybridity: the Safawids 13. The edges of the Turco-Persianate world: Anatolia, India and Central Asia 14. Trip to Islamic Museum in Jerusalem Required Reading: 1. Organization of course; geographical and Historical background I: the Eurasian Steppe in ancient times Anatoly Khazanov. The Scythians and Their Neighbors. In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, [DS10 N ] 2. Historical background II: Ancient Iran Richard N. Frye. The Heritage of Persia. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [DS275 F7 1962] שאול שקד. "ספר המלכים ורקעו." מתוך: פרדוסי. שאה-נאמה. ספר המלכים. תרגם אליעזר כגן. ירושלים: מוסד ביאלק 1992), כרך א', עמ' כה-כט. PK6456] 1992] K34 H4 3. The coming of Islam to Iran, and the encounter with the nomads of Eurasia: Turks, Khazars and more קלוד כאהן. האיסלאם. מלידתו עד לתחילת האימפריה העות'מאנית. תרגם עמנואל קופלביץ, ערך יהושע פרנקל. תל-אביב: דביר, עמ' , page 3 / 7

4 Longman, [DS288 M ]; 2nd edition: London and New York: Routledge, [DS288 M ] 4. Ongoing contacts and conflicts: ; military slavery; conversion of the Turks; the Qara-Khanids; the Ghaznawids קלוד כאהן. האיסלאם. מלידתו עד לתחילת האימפריה העות'מאנית. תרגם עמנואל קופלביץ, ערך יהושע פרנקל. תל-אביב: דביר, עמ' Longman, [DS288 M ]; 2nd edition: London and New York: Routledge, [DS288 M ] Michal Biran. Ilak-Khanids. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 12, pp Iran and Turan: the Shahnamah and its relevancy to the Middle Ages and to Modern Iran שאול שקד. "ספר המלכים ורקעו." מתוך: פרדוסי. שאה-נאמה. ספר המלכים. תרגם אליעזר כגן. ירושלים: מוסד ביאלק 1992), כרך א', עמ' כא-כה, נ-נב. [PK6456 H4 K ] הטקסט עצמו: עמ' Abolqasem Ferdowsi. Shahnameh. The Persian Book of Kings. Tr. Dick Davis. New York: Viking, 2006) [PK 6456 A13 D ] נא להדפיס את הקטע, לקוראו לפני השיעור ולהביאו לכיתה לדיון. 6. The Steppe comes to Iran 1: the Seljuqs and the Turkmen Longman, [DS288 M ]; 2nd edition: London and New York: Routledge, [DS288 M ] קלוד כאהן. האיסלאם. מלידתו עד לתחילת האימפריה העות'מאנית. תרגם עמנואל קופלביץ, ערך יהושע פרנקל. תל-אביב: דביר, עמ' Richard N. Frye. Ibn Fadlans Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, נא להדפיס את הקטע, לקוראו לפני השיעור ולהביאו לכיתה לדיון. 7. Turks and Iranians: politics, society, economics and culture; Nizam al-mulk page 4 / 7

5 Longman, [DS288 M ]; 2nd edition: London and New York: Routledge, [DS288 M ] Nim al-mulk. The Book of Government, or, Rules for Kings: The Siysatnma or Siyar al-mulkk. Tr. Hubert Darke. London: Routledge & Paul, , , נא להדפיס את הקטע, לקוראו לפני השיעור ולהביאו לכיתה לדיון. 8. The Steppe comes to Iran 2: the Mongols Longman, [DS288 M ]; 2nd edition: London and New York: Routledge, [DS288 M ] 9. The creation of new forms of politics, society and culture Thomas T. Allsen. Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples in the Mongol Empire. Journal of Early Modern History. 1/1 (1997), Michal Biran. The Mongols and the Inter-Civilizational Exchange. In Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds. The Cambridge History of the World. Vol. 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE1500CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Not quite Steppe and not quite Iran: Timur and his successors Maria E. Subtelny. Tamerlane and Descendants: From Paladins to Patrons. In David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, The Culture of the Timurids: Art and architecture, literature. Read one of these two articles. Annemarie Schimmel. $fi and His Contemporaries. In Peter Jackson and Laurence Lockhart, eds. The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 6: The Timurid and Safavid Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam, New Haven: Yale University Press, Further Developments and Hybridity: the Safawids Sholeh A. Quinn. Iran under Safavid Rule. In David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World page 5 / 7

6 Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries The edges of the Turco-Persianate world: Anatolia, India and Central Asia. Read one of these three articles Robert D. McChesney. Islamic Culture and the Chinggisid Restoration: Central Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries Stephan Dale. India under Mughal Rule. In David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries Gottfried Hagen. The Order of Knowledge, the Knowledge of Order: Intellectual Life. In Suraiya N. Faroghi and Kate Fleet, eds. The Cambridge History of Turkey. Vol. 2: The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Trip to Islamic Museum in Jerusalem Additional Reading Material: 2. Historical background II: Ancient Iran Maria Brosius. The Persians: An Introduction. London & New York: Routledge, ; ; The coming of Islam to Iran, and the encounter with the nomads of Eurasia: Turks, Khazars and more `Abd al-$usayn Zarr+nkkb. The Arab Conquest of Iran and its Aftermath. In Richard N. Frye, ed. The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 4: London: Cambridge University Press, Ongoing contacts and conflicts: ; military slavery; conversion of the Turks; the Qara-Khanids; the Ghaznawids Jrgen Paul. The State and the Military: The Samanid Case. "Papers on Inner Asia," no. 26. Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, The Steppe comes to Iran 1: the Seljuqs and the Turkmen page 6 / 7

7 Powered by TCPDF ( Ann K.S. Lambton. Aspects of Saljuq-Ghuzz Settlement in Persia. In Donald S. Richards, ed. Islamic Civilisation: Oxford: Cassirer, Turks and Iranians: politics, society, economics and culture; Nizam al-mulk Andrew C.S. Peacock. The Great Seljuk Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, The Steppe comes to Iran 2: the Mongols Beatrice Forbes Manz. The Rule of the Infidels: The Mongols and the Islamic World. In David O. Morgan and Anthony Reid, eds. The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press, Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 50 % Assignments 40 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: The last lesson will be conducted at tour at the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art. page 7 / 7