Chingiz Khan Dbq

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Anne F. Broadbridge’s Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds is comprised of the contrasting positions held on different ideologies in the Medieval Islamic world. She distinguishes the between attitudes held toward political rule in the Middle East and Central Asia, specifically examining the years from 1260 to 1405. Where the influence of the Islamic religion had been playing a major role in how rulers defined their sovereignty, Mongol invasions led to unsettling comparisons to be established in order to clarify a ruler’s purpose as an administrative leader. The primary difference addressed is the conflict between Mamluk Sultans and Mongol Khans, which led to an even greater sense of dissimilar forms of political legitimacy …show more content…

However, Tughril was different from Chingiz Khan because he initially established his rule upon the notion that he would be the protector of the caliphate. The Muslim dominance in Iran required Tughril’s ideological standpoint to accept historical understandings of rulership, thereby no overthrowing the caliphate, but by legitimizing themselves through establishing their own caliphate. Comparably, Broadbridge supports the perception of the Mamluk Sultanate being an Islamic ruler as opposed the view held by the Ilkhanids who saw them as a rebel dichotomy. These concepts differentiated the way a Khan verses a Sultan went about their rule in regions that were predominately Islamic. And although rulers focused on making decisions that made clear distinctions between each other, appealing to the Muslim community or “rightfully overthrowing them” was a necessity in and around Iran. No, there did not seem to be any inclination of a democratic sway threatening kings, khans, and sultans around the fourteenth century, but deviating too far from historical expectations could lead to issues of upholding a nation’s centralized …show more content…

Even though Chingiz Khan was able to unite Mongol tribes in order to further the expansion of his empire, Broadbridge recognizes the ideology he upheld concerning universal dominance was no longer emphasized by the Ilkhanids in the early fourteenth century. This ideological change is evidence of problems that came about in the Mongol world when the loss of Chingiz Khan resulted in the fragmentation of the empire. Broadbridge specifically investigates the Ilkhanids in Iran, the Golden Horde in Central Asia, and Temür in order to define new synthesized versions of determining political legitimacy, which is important to diagnose because Mongol leaders could not only compare themselves to non-Mongols but to other Mongols as well. One way Mongol rulers would do this is by adopting ancient traditions going all the way back to Sasanian history by promoting their own version of the Shahnamah, otherwise known as the Great Mongol Shahnamah. The Great Mongol Shahnamah features epic heroes like Alexander the Great, Ardashir, Bahram Gur to support Mongol ideologies of rule by conquest. Themes of the Great Mongol Shahnama included enthronement (focus on ruler, vision of grandeur), fantastic and supernatural things (battles and hunts), and legitimacy (seeing rule as sheer luck or chance, put special emphasis on examples

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