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This study examines the role of governmental institutions in creating a hospitable environment for medical practice in Yuan China (1206–1368). It shows that although the preceding Song government had already begun to take strong initiatives in the codifying of medical knowledge,…

Takht-i Sulaiman, the only well-preserved secular architectural complex from the Ilkhanid Mongol period in Iran, was built by the second Ilkhanid ruler Abaqa in the late thirteenth century on top of a Sasanian Zoroastrian sanctuary in the Azerbaijan region of Iran. It was used a…

This dissertation focuses on the development of Islamic architecture in Asia Minor (today's Turkey) throughout the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It proposes a study of the architecture of medieval Anatolia within the parameters of cross-cultural exchange, and of tra…

The Mamluk sultans legitimated their rule through the conscious promotion of Islamic themes. Chief among them were the waging of holy war, a dispensation from the Abbasid caliphs, the special relationship of the Mamluk sultan to the H[dotbelow]ijaz, and Mamluk patronage of relig…

The Mongol invasions of Greater Iran and Central Asia in the mid-thirteenth century marked a watershed in the history of Islamic art and architecture. The eastern Islamic world, in particular, witnessed a proliferation of elaborately illustrated and illuminated manuscripts, luxu…