Abbreviations

Journals and Secondary works

AAC2 Larry V. Clark and Paul Alexander Draghi (eds), Aspects of Altaic Civilization II: Proceedings of the XVIII PIAC, June 29–July 5, 1975 (Bloomington, 1978).
AAC3 Denis Sinor (ed.), Aspects of Altaic Civilization III (Bloomington, IN, 1990).
AEMA Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi
AOASH Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
AOH Acta Orientalia Hungarica
BEFEO Bulletin de l’école française d’extrême-orient
BLGK Linda Komaroff (ed.), Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden, 2006).
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
CAJ Central Asiatic Journal
CAS Central Asian Survey
CDMP Jurgen Tubach, Sophia G. Vashalomidze and Manfred Zimmer (eds), Caucasus during the Mongol Period – Der Kaukasus in der Mongolenzeit (Wiesbaden, 2012).
CEMA Istvan Zimonyi and Osman Karatay (eds), Central Eurasia in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Peter B. Golden (Wiesbaden, 2016)
CHCAR The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 6, Alien Regimes and Border States 907–1368
CHCSD The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 5, The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907–1279.
CHEIA The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
CHI The Cambridge History of Iran
CHIA The Cambridge History of Inner Asia
CHT The Cambridge History of Turkey
CHW The Cambridge History of the World
CMRS Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique
EI 2 Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition
EI 3 Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition
EM Études Mongole
EMLCH Volker Rybatzki, Alessandra Pozzi, Peter W. Geier and John R. Krueger (eds), The Early Mongols, Language, Culture and History (Bloomington, 2009)
EMME Christopher P. Atwood, Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire (New York, 2004).
HJAS Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
HMEIR Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review
HUS Harvard Ukrainian Studies
IA Inner Asia
IHR The International History Review
IJMES International Journal of Middle East Studies
ITSOTK In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period
JAH Journal of Asian History
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
JNES Journal of Near East Studies
JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
JSAH Journal of Southeast Asian History
JSAI Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
JSYS Journal of Song-Yuan Studies
JTS Journal of Turkish Studies
LGK Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni (eds), The Legacy of Genghis Khan (New York, 2003)
MEL Reuven Amitai-Preiss and David O. Morgan (eds), The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy (Leiden, 2001).
MME Bruno De Nicola and Charles Melville (eds), The Mongol’s Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran (Leiden, 2016).
MS Mongolian Studies, the journal of the Mongolia Society
MTO Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran (eds), Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (Leiden, 2005)
NCHI The New Cambridge History of Islam
PFEH Papers on Far Eastern History
RHC Recueil des historiens des croisades
SOM Henry G. Schwarz (ed.), Studies on Mongolia: Proceedings of the First North American Conference on
  Mongolian Studies (Bellingham, WA, 1978)
TIWBME James Muldoon (ed.), Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe (Burlington, VT, 2010)
TP T’oung Pao
UAJ Ural Altaische Jahrbucher
WHC World History Connected
WIAH Nicola Di Cosmo (ed.), Warfare in Inner Asian History (500–1800) (Leiden, 2002)

Editions of Commonly Cited Texts

Abu Shamah Abu Shamah, Shihab al-Din Abd al-Rahman ibn Isma’il al-Shafi, Tarajim rijal, al-qarnayn alsadis wa’l-sabi al-ma’ruf bi-dhayl al-rawdatayn, ed. Muhammad Kawthari (Cairo, 1947).
Benedict Benedictus Polonus, ‘Relatio Fr. Benedicti Poloni’, in P. Anastasius Van Den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana: Itinera et Relationes Fratrum Minorum Saeculi XIII et XIV (Florence, 1929), 131–43.
Benedict/Dawson Benedict the Pole, ‘The Narrative of Brother Benedict the Pole’, trans. Christopher Dawson, in Christopher Dawson, Mission to Asia (Toronto, 1980), 77–84.
BH1 Bar Hebraeus, The Chronography of Gregory Abu’l-Faraj, 2 vols, trans. Ernest A. Wallis Budge (Amsterdam, 1932).
BH2 Bar Hebraeus, The Chronography of Gregory Abu’l Faraj, 2 vols, trans. Ernest A. Wallis Budge (Piscataway, NJ, 2003).
Bridia Bridia, C. de, The Tatar Relation, trans. George D. Painter, pp. 54–101, in R. A. Skelton, Thomas E. Marston and George D. Painter (eds), The Vinland Map and the Tatar Relation (New Haven, 1965).
CM Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, 7 vols, ed. Henry Richards Luard (Cambridge, 2012).
Dhahabi Al-Dhahabi, Kitab Duwal al-Islam (Les Dynasties de L’Islam), trans. Arlette Negre (Damascus, 1979).
Dughlat/Thackston Dughlat, Mirza Haydar, Tarikh-i-Rashidi: A History of the Khans of Moghulistan (Books 1 and 2), trans. Wheeler M. Thackston (London, 2012).
EL Ermonlinskaia Letopis’, A. I. Tsepkov (ed.) (Riazan’, 2000).
Grigor of Akanc Grigor of Akanc, ‘The History of the Nation of the Archers by Grigor of Akanc’, ed. and trans. R. P. Blake and R. N. Frye, HJAS 12 (1949), 269–399.
GVC Perfecky, George A. (ed. and trans.), The Hypatian Codex II: The Galician-Volynian Chronicle (München, 1973).
Hadid al-Hadid, Abd al-Hamid ibn Hibat Allah Ibn Abi. Sharh Nahi al Balaghah (Beirut, 1963).
Hetoum Hetoum, A Lytell Cronycle, trans. Richard Pynson, ed. Glenn Burger (Toronto, 1988).
He’tum Het’um, ‘The Journey of Het’um I, King of Little Armenia to the Court of the Great Khan Mongke’, trans. John A. Boyle, CAJ 9 (1964), 175–89.
Historia de Morbo Mussis, Gabriele de, ‘Historia de Morbo’, in Rosemary Horrox (ed. and trans.), The Black Death (Manchester, 1994).
IB1 Ibn Battuta, Rihala Ibn Battuta (Beirut, 1995).
IB2 Ibn Battutah, The Travels of Ibn Battutah, trans. H. A. R. Gibb, ed. Tim Mackintosh-Smith (London, 2002).
Ibn al-Athir Ibn Al-Athir, Al Kamil fi al-Ta’rikh, Vol. XII (Beirut, 1979).
Ibn al-Athir/Richards Ibn al-Athir, The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-ta’rikh, pt. 3: The Years 589–629/1193–1231: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongol Menace, trans. D. S. Richards (Burlington, VT, 2008).
IL Ipat’evskaia Letopis’, ed. A. I. Tsepkov, Russkie Letopisi, Vol. 1 (Riazan’, 2001).
JPC Plano Carpini, Iohannes de, ‘Ystoria Mongalorum’, in P. Anastasius Van Den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana: Itinera et Relationes Fratrum Minorum Saeculi XIII et XIV (Florence, 1929), 27–130.
JPC/Dawson Plano Carpini, John of, ‘History of the Mongols’, trans. A Nun of Stanbrook Abbey, in Christopher Dawson, Mission to Asia (Toronto, 1980), 3–72.
Juvaini/Boyle Juvaini, Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik, The History of the World-Conqueror, trans. J. A. Boyle (Seattle, 1997).
Juwayni/Qazvini Juwayni, Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik, Ta’rikh-i-Jahan-Gusha, 3 vols, ed. Mirza Muhammad Qazvini (Leiden, 1912–37).
Juzjani/Habibi Juzjani, Minhaj Siraj, Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, ed. A. H. Habibi, Vol. 2 (Kabul, 1964–5).
Juzjani/Raverty Juzjani, Minhaj Siraj, Tabakat-i-Nasiri (a History of the Muhammedan Dynasties of Asia), trans. Major H. G. Raverty (Kolkata, 2010).
KDRH Peter B. Golden (ed.), The King’s Dictionary The Rasulid Hexaglot, trans. Tibor Halasi-Kun, Peter B. Golden, Louis Ligeti and Edmund Schutz (Leiden, 2000).
Khwandamir Khwandamir, Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan, trans. Wheeler M. Thackston (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012).
Kiracos Kiracos de Gantzac, ‘Histoire d’Armenie’, in M. Brousset (trans.), Deux Historiens Arméniens: Kiracos de Gantzax, XIII S., ‘Histoire d’Arménie’; Oukhtanès D’Ourha, X S., ‘Histoire en trois parties’ (St Petersburg, 1870).
Kirakos Kirakos Gaandzakets’i, History of the Armenians, trans. Robert Bedrosian, http://rbedrosian.com/kgtoc.html.
LOE Malcolm Barber and Keith Bates (eds and trans.), Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries (Burlington, VT, 2010).
LPLS Letopis’ Po Lavrentievskomu Spisku (St Petersburg, 1872).
Maqrizi Al-Maqrizi, Ahamd Ibn Ali, Kitab al-Suluk li M’arifat fi Dul al-Muluk, Ziyardah Muhammad Mustafi (ed.) (Cairo, 1956).
Maqrizi/Quatremere Al-Maqrizi, Ahmad Ibn Ali. Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks de L’Egypte, trans. Etienne Quatremere (Paris, 1837, 1845).
Master Roger Master Roger, ‘Epistola in miserabile carmen super destructione Regni Hungarie per tartaros facta’, trans. Janos M. Bak and Martin Rady, in Janos M. Bak, Martyn Rady and Laszlo Veszpremy (eds), Anonymous and Master Roger (Budapest, 2010), 132–227.
Matthew Paris Matthew Paris, English History, 3 vols, trans. J. A. Giles (New York, 1968).
MDBL Zhao Hong, Meng-Da Bei-Lu (Polnoe opisanie Mongolo-Tatar), trans. N. Ts. Munkueva (Moscow, 1975).
MP1 Polo, Marco, The Travels of Marco Polo, trans. Henry Yule and Henri Cordier, ed. Morris Rosabi (New York, 2012).
MP/Cliff Polo, Marco, The Travels, trans. Nigel Cliff (New York, 2015).
MP/Latham Polo, Marco, The Travels, trans. R. E. Latham (New York, 1958).
MP/Marsden Polo, Marco, The Travels of Marco Polo, trans. William Marsden (New York, 2001).
MP/YC Polo, Marco, The Travels, trans. Henry Yule and Henri Cordier (New York, 1993).
Nasawi Al-Nasawi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Sirah al-Sultan Jalal al-Din Mankubirti (Cairo, 1953).
Nasawi/Houdas En-Nesawi, Mohammed, Histoire du Sultan Djelal ed-din Mankobirti, trans. O. Houdas (Paris, 1895).
Nikon Zenkovsky, Serge A. (ed.), The Nikonian Chronicle, 5 vols, trans. Serge A. and Betty Jean Zenkovsky (Princeton, 1986).
Novgorod Michell, Robert and Nevill Forbes (eds and trans.), The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016–1471 (London, 1914).
Nuwayri Al-Nuwayri, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Nihayat al-Arab Fi Funun al-Adab, ed. Sa’id Ashur. Cairo: Al-hayat al Misriyyat al-ammat lil-kitab, 1975.
Odoric B. Odoricus de Portu Naonis, ‘Relatio de B. Odoricus de Portu Naonis’, in P. Anastasius Van Den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana: Itinera et Relationes Fratrum Minorum Saeculi XIII et XIV (Florence, 1929), 381–495.
Odoric/Yule Odoric of Pordenone, The Travels of Friar Odoric, trans. Henry Yule (Grand Rapids, MI, 2002).
RD/Karimi Rashid al-Din, Jami’al-tawarikh, ed. B. Karimi (Tehran, 1983).
RD/Thackston1 Rashiduddin Fazlullah, The Compendium of Chronicles, trans. W. M. Thackston (Cambridge, MA, 1998).
RD/Thackston2 Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Jami’u’t-Tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles, Vol. 3, Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World: Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, trans. Wheeler M. Thackston (London, 2012).
RS Rabban Sawma, The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China: Medieval Travels from China through Central Asia to Persia and Beyond, trans. E. A. Wallis Budge, new introd. by David Morgan (London, 2014).
Rubruc Rubruc, Guillelmus de, ‘Itinerarium Willelmi de Rubruc’, in P. Anastasius Van Den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana: Itinera et Relationes Fratrum Minorum Saeculi XIII et XIV (Florence, 1929), 145–332.
Rubruck/Dawson Rubruck, William of, ‘The Journey of William of Rubruck’, trans. A Nun of Stanbrook Abbey, in Christopher Dawson (ed.), Mission to Asia (Toronto, 1980), 89–220.
Rubruck/Jackson Rubruck, William of, The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck, trans. Peter Jackson (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2009).
SHM Rachewiltz, Igor de (trans.), The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century, 3 vols (Leiden, 2004 and 2013).
SWQZL ‘Shengwu Qinzheng Lu (Bogda Bagatur Bey-e-Ber Tayilagsan Temdeglel)’, in Asaraltu (ed.), Bogda Bagatur Bey-e-Ber Tayilagsan Temdeglel (Qayilar,
  PRC, 1985), 3–95.
Thomas of Spalato Thomas of Spalato, Istorija Archiepiskopov Salony i Splita, trans. A. I. Solopov, ed. O. A. Akimova (Moscow, 1997).
Thomas of Split Thomas of Split, Historia Salonitanorum atque Spalatinorum pontificum, ed. Olga Peric, trans. Damir Karbic, Mirjana Matijevic Sokol and James Ross Sweeney (Budapest, 2006).
Vardan Vardan Arewelc’i, ‘The Historical Compilation of Vardan Arewelc’i’, trans. Robert W. Thomson, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 43 (1989), 125–226.
Vartan Vartan, ‘Les Mongols d’après les historiens arméniens: Extrait de l’histoire universelle de Vartan’,
ed. and trans. M. Ed Dulaurier, Journal Asiatique 13 (October–November 1860), 273–315.
Xi Youji Chih-Ch’ang, Li, The Travels of the Alchemist: The Journey of the Taoist Ch’ang Ch’un from China to the Hindukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan, trans. Arthur Waley (Westport, CT, 1976).
Yelu Chucai Yeh-lu Ch’u-Ts’ai, ‘The Hsi-yu Lu’, trans. Igor de Rachewiltz, Monumenta Serica 21 (1962), 1–128.
YS 98 ‘Yuan Shi chapter 98’, in Ch’i-ch’ing Hsiao, The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty (Cambridge, MA, 1978), 72–91.
YS 99 ‘Yuan Shi chapter 99’, in Ch’i-ch’ing Hsiao, The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty (Cambridge, MA, 1978), 92–124.
YS 135 Richard Paul Currie (trans.), ‘An Annotated Translation of the Biography of Togto Temur from the Yuan Shih’, MA thesis, Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University, 1984.
YUS Demchigdorzh, Ch. (trans.), Yuan Ulsyn Sudar, ed. B. Sumiyabaatar and J. Serjee (Ulaanbaatar, 2002).