Introduction of Chinese cities in historical and geographical sources in Persian

Document Type : علمی ترویجی

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MA in History and Civilization of Islamic Nations, University of Tehran

10.22034/skh.2019.4931

Abstract

The vast land of China, especially East Turkestan, has long been the focus of Muslim historians and geographers, who in the first centuries of Islam devoted pages of their books to the description of this land. However, from the seventh century AH, the Mongol invasions of Islamic lands increased the attention of Persian Muslim writers to China. In fact, with the conquest of the Islamic lands and the conquest of China, the Mongols created a better connection between the Islamic lands and China. The successors of the Mongols in Iran, the Ilkhans and the Timurids, also established extensive relations with China. These geographers and historians have often provided business, political, and religious information about China. In this research, descriptively-analytically and using library resources and relying on Persian sources, Chinese cities are studied from the perspective of geographers and historians and this article seeks to answer the question that how Chinese cities be described in Persian sources.

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Vol.13, No.29, Spring & Summer 2019
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Pages 203-214

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