Persian Primary Sources on the Mongol Campaigns, a Pre-Appraisal
Persian Primary Sources on the Mongol Campaigns, a Pre-Appraisal

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a classification of the accounts of the later Mongol campaigns in West Asia in the thirteenth century, with a focus on the Arabic and Persian accounts of the establishment of the Ilkhanate of Iran, in particular the issues of manuscript recensions and textual complications. The paper presents a brief overview of the modes of production of historiographical texts in Classical Arabic and Persian first, situating them in a larger context of the extant accounts of the Mongol campaigns. Then it takes a closer look at the two earliest Persian sources, and addresses the complicated history of their production and distribution, as well as their textual interdependence

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