Category: by Hana Mahyoub
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Prior to the turn of the century among both near-Eastern and Western scholars, the status quo narrative of Mongol conquest, expansion, and rule of Eurasia from the 13th to 15th centuries gives the Mongols an overwhelmingly singular reputation: brutish, merciless, and unintelligent. In the past few decades, however, the tide of this characterisation in scholarship…
The Oxford Arabist 