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The Mongols’ Baghdad. Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest - Volume 22. 2025

medieval worlds Volume 22. 2025

Exceptionally, volume 22 focuses on one topic only: the manuscript corpus from the period of Ilkhanid rule in Baghdad (13th and 14th century CE). Entitled The Mongols’ Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest, guest editors Bruno De Nicola and Nadine Löhr aim to challenge with this volume the well-established narrative of Baghdad’s cultural decline after the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258 CE. They consider the corpus a valuable resource for reconstructing intellectual and cultural trends from a multidisciplinary perspective. Accordingly, focusing on legal, medical, astronomical, literary or theological texts, the case studies offer insights into a great variety of topics: the change in linguistic and literary interest of the ruling elites (B. De Nicola), the processes of editing, disseminating and canonisation (S. Kamola, T. Mimura), the resilience of theological networks (S. Brinkmann) and the continuity of legal scholarship (K. Ivanyi). The rich layers of marginal notes in two specific manuscripts are utilized by G. Gharib and N. Löhr: the one to trace the extent of manuscript destruction and continuity, the other to map the scholarly environment in which scientific traditions were maintained. From historical sources and surviving medieval buildings A. Petersen reconstructs which urban infrastructure may have persisted after Mongol conquest.
The Mongols’ Baghdad. Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest - Volume 22. 2025

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ISSN Online2412-3196
ISBN-13978-3-7001-9754-6
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-9754-6
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doi10.1553/medievalworlds_no22_2025
Walter Pohl, Nina Mirnig, guest editors: Bruno De Nicola, Nadine Löhr

The Mongols’ Baghdad. Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest - complete volume

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Table of Content

Ingrid Hartl ORCID, Walter Pohl ORCID

Editorial

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Bruno De Nicola ORCID, Nadine Löhr

The Mongols’ Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest – Introduction

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Bruno De Nicola ORCID

Persian Books from Mongol Baghdad: A Survey of Manuscript Evidence

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Stefan Kamola ORCID

Reconstructing Rashīdī Manuscript Production: The Case for a Baghdad Scriptorium

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Stefanie Brinkmann

Hadith scholarship in Mongol Baghdad: al-Qazwīnī’s transmission of al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna

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Katharina Ivanyi ORCID

Ḥanafī fiqh and the Mongol Conquest: ʿAbd Allāh b. Maḥmūd al-Mawṣilī’s (d. 683/1284) al-Mukhtār li-l-fatwā

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Taro Mimura ORCID

The Ṣābi’ Family Library of Thābit ibn Qurra’s Works in Baghdad

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Ghasem Gharib

From the Banks of the Tigris to Circumambulating al-Kaʻba: The Fate of a Manuscript from the Last Abbasid Caliph’s Library during the Mongol Invasion

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Hadi Jorati

Born in Baghdad: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Juwaynī and the Composition of Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā

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Andrew Petersen

The Buildings of Medieval Baghdad and the Impact of the Mongol Conquest in 1258

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Nadine Löhr

Reading Ptolemy’s Almagest in the Ilkhanate. Remarks on Marginalia in Books I and II of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī

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