Includes bibliographical references and index.

What the partridge told the eagle : a neglected Arabic source on Chinggis Khan and the early history of the Mongols / Robert G. Irwin -- From Ulus to Khanate : the making of the Mongol states, c.1220-c1290 / Peter Jackson -- Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern geography : Q�ishl�aqs and T�umens / John Masson Smith, Jr. -- Mongol imperial ideology and the Ilkahnid War against the Mamluks / Reuven Amitai-Preiss -- The �Ilkh�an �Oljeit�u's conquest of G�il�an (1307) : rumour and reality / Charles Melville -- The �Ath�ar wa ahy�a� of Rash�id al-D�in Fa�dl All�ah Hamad�an�i and his contributions as an agronomist, arboriculturist and horticulturalist / A.K.S. Lambton -- The letters of Rash�id al-D�in : �Ilkh�anid fact or Timurid fiction? / A.H. Morton -- Notes on shamans, fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang practitioners and civil administration in Y�uan China / Elizabeth Endicott-West -- Qubilai Qa�an and �Phags-pa bLa-ma / Sh. Bira -- Qubilai Qa�an and the historians : some remarks on the position of the great Khan in pre-modern Chinese / T.H. Barrett -- China as a successor state to Mongol Empire / Hidehiro Okado -- Some comments on the consequences of the decline of the Mongol Empire on the social development of the Mongols / Udo B. Barkmann -- How Mongol were the early Ottomans? / Rudi Paul Lindner -- The early history of the Moghul nomads : the legacy of the Chaghatai Khanate / Hodong Kim -- The legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk) tribes in relation to the Chinggisid principle / Junko Miyawaki -- The vicissitudes of Mongolian historiography in the twentieth century / Thomas N. Haining.