Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Mongols in Iran and the Middle East, Part 2
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Summary
In this continuing lecture, we examine Jewish life under the Il-Khans of the Mongol Empire. We also look at the Mamluk-Ilkhanid war and war in the Middle East: the Mongols in Iran clash with the Mamluks in Egypt and the Levant. Hulegu Kahn (1217-65) threatens the King of Egypt and they meet in the Galilee in 1260. Who lost? Who won? Who were the Mamluks?
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).