@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {14423},
      author = {van den Bent,  Josephine},
      title = {Ilkhanid Sources in the Mamluk Sultanate: The Use of  Juvaynī’s Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā by al-ʿUmarī and Ibn Kathīr},
      publisher = {Middle East Documentation Center at the University of  Chicago},
      journal = {Mamlūk Studies Review},
      address = {2024},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {In the Mamluk Sultanate there was clearly not only an  elaborate interest in the Mongols, but an active exchange  of ideas and information between the sultanate and Mongol  territories, especially the Ilkhanate. Although many of  these exchanges appear to have been through oral  informants, it is not always exactly clear how information  reached the sultanate. Two Mamluk-era historians—al-ʿUmarī  and Ibn Kathīr—appear to have independently used the same  (or very similar) version(s) of Juvaynī’s Tārīkh-i  Jahāngushā, which contained some conspicuous differences in  both content and structure compared to the Persian text as  we have it today. From a Mamlukist’s point of view, this is  relevant first because it allows for a thorough comparison  of al-ʿUmarī’s and Ibn Kathīr’s respective utilizations of  the text. Such a comparison reveals their differing  intentions in their representation of the Yasa—that vague  “something” that was clearly important to the Mongols and  in which many Mamluk-era authors took an interest.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14423},
}