The Impact of Religious Factors on Legitimation of Power in the Golden Horde and Late Medieval Turkic-Mongol States of the 15th–18th Centuries

The article deals with a new factor of legitimating power in the late medieval Chinggisid states established after the decline and fall of the ‘steppe empires’ of the Yuan Dynasty, Ilkhanate in Iran, Chagatai Ulus, and Golden Horde. The decrease of Chinggisid power resulted in the appearance of othe...

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Main Author: R.Yu. Pochekaev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: State Institution «Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences» 2013-09-01
Series:Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie
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Online Access:http://goldhorde.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB-%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%801-96-109.pdf