The Golden Tent Paradigm: Between the Mongols and Islam

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée

关键词: Keywords:  Mongol Empire;    Ilkhanate;    symbols of power;    nomads;    tents;    archaeological textiles;   

DOI  :  10.4000/remmm.10830

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract: This article focuses on the ‘golden tent’ and on tents from the golden textiles depicted in the medieval written sources as the symbols of power of the Mongol khans. Having analysed the reports of the direct observers, as well as those of the medieval Muslim historians, the author concludes that these terms were used not so much to describe different objects as to designate two different ideologemes reflecting the nomadic and Islamic pragmatics. The Mongol ‘Golden Tent’ is a historical element of the nomadic culture, the imperial space-time continuum where the spatial idea of ‘centrality’ is coupled with the temporal dimension of the eternity of the bloodline of Chinggis Khan. Tents from the golden textiles is a metaphor of power and the divine nature of the Mongol rulers of Persia, that was artificially created by the Persian historians of the Mongol Hülegüid dynasty.

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