THE BEGINNING OF MUSLIM HISTORICAL RESEARCH*

Spuler, in his "Historische und Geographische Literatur", in Hdttch
Der Orientallsrik, IV/2/1, lranistik, 122-136. The Second International
Congress of the Mongolists was held at Ulan Bator (2-9 September, 1970)
in which many important and original papers dealing with all aspects of
Mongol history and culture were read. For a list of the titles of these
papers see Journal Asiatique (1970), CCLVII/3-4,407-419. The history of
Iran from the Mongol invasion to the establishment of the Timurid dynasty
has been studied by 'Abbls Iqbg in his Ta'rikiz-i-Moglrol, 2nd ed. (1341
A.H. Shamsi), X, pp. 619. J.J. Saunders, Tk History of tk Mongol Conquests
(1971), pp. XIX, + 275. D. Ayalon, "The European-Asiatic
Steppe: A Major Reservoir of Power in the Islamic World", in Transactions,
II,47-52. See 'The Mongol Disaster', in A History of Medievallslam
by JJ. Saunders (1 %5), 170- 186 (specially the lbibliography). V. Barthold,
Teksty, vol. I of Twkestan v epokhu Mongolskago Nashestviya; MuLin
al-Fuqul', Kit6i-MulkSzcSde (1898), 166-172; B.Y. Vladimirtsov, Tk
Life of Chingis KI~iin, tr. by D.S. Mirksy, (1930, repr. 1972), pp. XI1 + 172.
See the papers concerning the history and culture of the Mongols in
The Cambridge History of Iriin, The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, V, 303-
679; 691-94. For the Mongol invasion of Europe see G. Barraclough,
History in a Changing World, 51, 134, 189-90. See "Turks and Mongols:
the End of the Caliphate" in History of the Islamic Peoples by Carl Brockelmann,
(1952) 240-255; W. Barthold, "Changiz Khjln and the Mongols",
and "Turkestan under Mongol Domination", in Turkestan Down to the
Mongol Invasion, 3rd ed. (1968). 381-494. For Arabic historiography
under the Mongols see Jurji Zaydin, Ta'rlkh al-Adab al-Lughat al-'Arab~ya,
111, 148-153; B. Spuler, The "Mongols" in The Cambridge History of
Islam, I, 160-174; Bernard Lewis, ibid., 21 1-219. For the Mongols in
Anatolia see Osman Turan in The Cambridge History of Islam, I, 246-
262. A short but useful bibliography on the Mongols is provided by Jean
Sauvaget and Claude Cahen, Introduction to the History of the Muslim East,
168- 170; Bertold Spuler1F.R.C. Bagley, The Muslim World, A Historical
Survey, The Mongol Period, (1969) 11, 1-56; see "Religion under the
Mongols" by A. Bausani in The Cambridge History of Iran, V, 538-549
and "The Mongols" by Herbert M.J. Loewe in The Cambridge Medieval
History (1923) IV, 627-652 (out of date); Ludwig ForrerIBertold Spuler
(4s). Der Vordere Orient, 85-86; 99-102. B. Spuler, "Quellen Kritik der
Mongolengeschichte Irins", in ZDMG, vol. 92, (1939); see the different
editions of the Secret History of the Mongok tr. by P. Pelliot (1949), A.D.