List of Publication MICHAL BIRAN

Doctoral Dissertation

1. Michal Biran, "China, Nomads and Islam: The Qara Khitai Dynasty (1124-1218)" under the supervision of Profs. Michael Zand (HU) and Elizabeth Endicott (Middlebury College, VT, USA). Awarded November 2000, with distinction.

Books

2. Michal Biran 1997. Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia, X + 198pp, Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey.

3. Michal Biran 2005, 2008. The Qara Khitai Empire in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World, XVI + 279pp, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

4. Michal Biran 2007. Chinggis Khan. x+182pp, One World Publications, Oxford (in the series "The Makers of the Muslim World).

4.1. Mongolian translation, 2015 Michal Biran, Chinggis Khaan. Ulaabaatar: Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2015 (Михал Биран, Чингис хаан, Боть VII,УБ.,2015)

4.2. Turkish Translation, 2019: Michal Biran, Cengiz Han, tr. Ahmet Fethi Yildirim. Istanbul: VakifBank Kultur yayinlari, 2019.

Books Edited

5. Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. 2005. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the World. XX + 550, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

6. Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. 2015. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change, "New Perspectives on the Global Past" series 360 pp, Honolulu, Hawaii University Press.

7. Michal Biran, ed. In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia,  Asiatische Studien 71.4 (2017),1051-1245; 194 pp.

8. Michal Biran, ed. Mobility and Transformation: Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,  62/2-3 (2019). 267 pp.

9. Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar and Gideon Shelach-Lavi. 2019. Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-24362-3.

10. Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti. 2020. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520298750.

11. Yuri Pines, Michal Biran and Jörg Rüpke. The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared. 2021. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chapters in Collections

12. Michal Biran. “The Battle of Herat (1270): A Case of Inter-Mongol Warfare.” In Nicola Di Cosmo, ed. Warfare in Inner Asia. Leiden: 45pp, 2002, E.J. Brill, Leiden.

13. Michal Biran. "The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire." In Johan P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock, eds. Eurasian Transformations Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances. 23pp. 2004, E. J. Brill, Leiden and Boston.

14. Michal Biran. ”True To Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai did not Convert to Islam," In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. 25pp, 2005, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

15. Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. "Introduction." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. 13pp, 2005, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

16. Michal Biran. "Ilak-khanids (or Qarakhanids)." In Encyclopedia Iranica, vol. XII, 621-28. 8pp. 2005, Columbia University Press, New York.

17. Michal Biran. Between China and Islam: The Administration of the Qara Khitai Empire." In David Sneath, editor. Imperial Statecrafts: Political Forms and Techniques of Governance in Inner Asia C6th- C20th. 25pp. Western Washington University Press.

18. Michal Biran. "Central Asia from the Conquest of Chinggis Khan to the Rise of Tamerlane: The Ögodeied and Chaghadaid Realms." In Peter B. Golden, Nicola Di Cosmo and Allan Frank, eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 46-66.

19. Michal Biran. “The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34)," in A. Layish, ed. Conversion, Sufism, Revival and Reform in Islam: Essays in Memory of Nehemiya Levzion. Jerusalem: The Van-Leer Institution and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 (Hebrew, extended version of no. 23 below).

20. Michal Biran. "Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370)." In David Durand-Guedy, ed. Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life in Iran and the Neighboring Countries. Leiden: Brill, 2013: 257-283.

21. Michal Biran, 2014. "The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad Revisited: Violence and Restoration according to Contemporaneous Biographical Sources. In Ts. Tserendorj and N. Khishigt, eds. Chinggis Khan and Globalization . Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Academy of Science, 321-327.

22. Michal Biran. "The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: The Case of the Khitans of China." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change, 25 pp., 2015, Hawaii University Press, Honolulu.

23. Michal Biran. "Introduction: Nomadic Culture." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change, 15pp., 2015, Hawaii University Press, Honolulu.

24. Michal Biran. "The Mongols and the Inter-Civilizational Exchange." In Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds. The Cambridge History of the World: Vol. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015: 534-558.

25. Michal Biran. "Qarakhanid Eastern Trade: Preliminary Notes on the Silk Roads in the 11th-12th Centuries," In Jan Bemmann and M. Schmauder, eds., The Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the first Millennium CE. Empires, Cities, Nomads and Farmers in Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology 7. Bonn: Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, 2015, pp. 575-95.

26. Michal Biran. "Music in the Conquest of Baghdad: Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanids Circle of Musicians," in Bruno De Nicola, ed. The Mongols in the Middle East (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 133-154.

27. Michal Biran. "The Fall and Rise of Ilkhanid Baghdad," in and D. Bayarsarkhan and Christopher Atwood, eds.,  New Approaches to Ilkhanid  Research  [Il-haadin sudlal shine handlaga].  Ulaanbaatar, 2016. 207-226. [In Mongolian].

28. Michal Biran, 2016d.  "Chaghadaid-Golden Horde Relations (1260-1347)". In The Golden Horde in World History, ed. Rafael Khakimov, Marie Favereau et al. Kazan: Institut istorii im. Sh. Mardzhani Akademii nauk Tatarstana, 2016. [In Russian].

29. Michal Biran. "The Non-Han Dynasties," in M. Szonyi, ed. The Blackwell Companion of Chinese History (Oxford: Willey Blackwell, 2017),  pp. 129-143.

30. Michal Biran. 2018a. "Scholarship and Science under the Qara Khitai (1124-1218), in D. O. Morgan and S. Edwards, eds. The Coming of the Mongols. London: Tauris, 58-72.

31. Michal Biran, 2018b. "Violence and Non-Violence in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," in Robert Gleave and István Kristó-Nagy, eds. Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism, 15-31. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press.

32. Michal Biran. 2019a. "The Mamluks and Mongol Central Asia," in Reuven Amitai and Stephan Conermann, eds. The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History: Economic, Social and Cultural Development in an Era of Increasing International Interaction and Competition. 367-390. Bonn: Bonn University Press/V&R unipress.

33. Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar and Gideon Shelach-Lavi. 2019b. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises, in idem, Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives. 1-4. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

34. Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti, 2020a.  Introduction: Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia, in idem, eds. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv125jrx5.6.

35. Michal Biran, 2020b.  “Qutulun, the Warrior Princess of Central Asia” in Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti, eds. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals. Berkeley: University of California Press, 64-82. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520970786-007.

36. Michal Biran, 2021. The Mongols’ Imperial Space: From Universalism to Glocalization,” in Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, and Jörg Rüpke, eds. Universality and Its Limits: Spatial Dimensions of Eurasian Empires. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108771061.008.

37. Michal Biran. 2022. "Baghdad under Mongol Rule," in Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral-Niehoff, eds. Baghdad: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, 285-315. Leiden: Brill.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513372_012.

38. Michal Biran. 2022. “The Mongol World-Order: From Universalism to Glocalization,” in Klaus Oschema and Christoph Mauntel, eds., Order into Action, 127-149. Tournhout: Brespols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.123846.

Articles published in academic journals.

39. Michal Biran, 2001a. "Like a Mighty Wall: The Armies of the Qara Khitai," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 25: 44-91.

40. Michal Biran, 2001b. “Qarakhanid Studies: A View from the Qara Khitai Edge,” Cahiers d’Asia Centrale, 9: 73-85. [based on materials collected while working on #1]

41. Michal Biran, 2002 [2003]. “The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34).” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122.4: 742-752.

42. Michal Biran, 2003. “The Impact of the Mongol Conquests on the Steppe Peoples’ Collective Identities,” The Van Leer’s Arena for Public Discourse 7: 90-99 (in Hebrew).

43. Michal Biran, 2004. "The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire." Medieval Encounters, 10/1-3: 338-361. [Reprinted in # 6]

44. Michal Biran, 2007-8. "Culture and Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Realm (1220-1370)- Some Preliminary Notes." Chronika, 7-8: 26-43.

45. Michal Biran. 2008a. "Chaghadaid Diplomacy and Chancellery Practices: Some Preliminary Remarks," Oriente Moderno, 88/2: 369-92.

45.1 Chinese version: "Chahetai hanguo de waijiao yu qianshi guanli chutan [察合台汗国的外交与遣使惯例初探]," tr. Qiu Yihao, Xiyu yanjiu 2 (2014), pp. 92-115.

46. Michal Biran. 2008b. "Eurasian Images of Chinggis Khan: Between Myth and Reality. " Zmanim, 100: 56-71 (in Hebrew).

47. Michal Biran. 2010. "Chinggis Khan in China and in the Muslim World: Between Hero and Anti Hero," Acta Mongolica, 10:143-150.

48. Michal Biran. "Kitan Migrations in Inner Asia," Central Eurasian Studies, 3 (2012), 85-108.

49. Michal Biran, 2013a. "The Liao and the Muslim World: Migrations, Diplomacy, Commerce, and Mutual Perceptions." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 43 (2013), 221-251.

50. Michal Biran, 2013b. "The Mongol Empire: The State of the Research", Compass, 11/11: 1021-1033. [The article in its printed version can be found in the Wiley Online Library here].

51. Michal Biran, 2015a. "Unearthing the Liao Dynasty’s Relations with the Muslim World: Migrations, Diplomacy, Commerce and Mutual Perceptions,"  Journal of Song Yuan Studies  43 (2013 [2015]), 221-251.

52. Michal Biran 2015d. "The Mongol Empire as a Turning Point in the World History: Processes and Results." Igeret Magazine (The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities) 37 (2015), pp. 12-19. (in Hebrew)

53. Michal Biran, 2015g. "Encounters Among Enemies: Preliminary Remarks on Captives in Mongol Eurasia," Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 21: 27-42.

54. Michal Biran, 2015h. "Mental Maps of Mongol Central Asia As Seen from the Mamluk Sultanate, " Journal of Asian History, 49:31-51.

55. Michal Biran, 2016b. "The Islamization of Hülegü: Imaginary Conversion in the Ilkhanate." JRAS, Series 3, 26, 1-2 (2016), pp. 79-88. DOI: 10.1017/S1356186315000723.

56. Michal Biran, 2017. "Introduction: In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia,"  Asiatische Studien 71.4: 1051-1057.

57. Michal Biran, 2019a. "Libraries, Books and Transmission of Knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient  62/2-3, 464-502.

58. Michal Biran, 2019b. "Introduction: Mobility, Transformation and Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient  62/2-3, 257-268.

Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Shorter Publications:

59. Michal Biran, 2000. Review of Charles Melville’s The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran. Iranian Studies, 33/1-2: 245-6.

60. Michal Biran, 2001. "China, Nomads and Islam: The Qara Khitai (Western Liao) Dynasty, 1124-1218: Dissertation Abstract. Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 31: 363-5.

61. Michal Biran, 2002. Review of Matthew S. Gordon’s The Breaking of a Thousand Swords. A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra. International History Review, 24/2: 389-91.

62. Michal Biran, 2003 [2004]. Review of Thomas T. Allsen’s Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123.2: 446-7.

63. Michal Biran, 2005 [2006]. Review of George Lane's Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 30: 572-6.

64. Michal Biran, 2006a. "Genghis Khan." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 1: 280-82.

65. Michal Biran, 2006b. "Silk Roads." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 2: 745-9.

66. Michal Biran, 2006c. "Tamerlane." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 2:796-8.

67. Michal Biran, 2009a. "Jochi," Encyclopedia Iranica, 15: 1-2.

68. Michal Biran, 2009b. "Jovayni, Shams al-Din," Encyclopedia Iranica, 15: 71-74.

69. Michal Biran, 2007 [2012]. Review of Linda Komaroff (ed). Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden: Brill, 2006), MESA bulletin, 41.2 :204-205.

70. Michal Biran, 2008. Review of Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Itinerario: International Journal on European Expansion and Global Interaction. 32: 146-148.

71. Michal Biran, 2009c. Review of Istvan Vasary's Cumans and Tatars. Canada Slavonic Papers, 51/2: 352-3.

72. Michal Biran, 2009d. Review of Anne F. Broadbridge. Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol World. Journal of Central Eurasian Studies, 1: 111-15.

73. Michal Biran. 2010. Studies on the Mongol Empire from the Perspective of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (1989-2009)." Perspectives and Research Trends on the Conquest Dynasties in Foreign Scholarship (Seoul), 2: 149-64 [Published in Korean].

74. Michal Biran, 2011. Review of David M. Robinson, Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 71/2: 370-77.

75. Michal Biran, 2013. "Transoxania." In Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone et. al. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, 360-361.

76. Michal Biran, 2013. Review of 'The Mongol Conquests in World History' The Journal of Asian Studies, 72, 465-467. doi:10.1017/S0021911813000260.

77. Michal Biran, 2015a. "Baraq, Chaghatayid Khan," Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE, 2015-2:42-44.

78. Michal Biran, 2015b. "Chaghatay Khan, son of Chinggis Khan," Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE, 2015-3: 59-60.

79. Michal Biran, 2015c. "Chinggisids," Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE, 2015-3: 60-65.

80. Michal Biran, 2015e. Review of Lange, Christian and Songül Mecit, eds. The Seljuqs: Politics, Society and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Mediterranean History Review 30/1:50-53, DOI: 10.1080/09518967.2015.1044824

81. Michal Biran, 2016a. "Karakhanid Khanate," Encyclopedia of Empires.1-2, DOI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe156.

82. Michal Biran, 2016b "Kara Khitan Khanate," Encyclopedia of Empires, 1-2, DOI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe157.

83. Michal Biran, 2016c. "Ilkhanid Empire," Encyclopedia of Empires Online, 1-7, DOI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe362.

84. Michal Biran, 2016d. "Chapar b. Ḳaydū," Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE.

85. Michal Biran, 2017. "Baraq Hajib," Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE. 2: 6-7.

86. Michal Biran,  2017. "Chinggis Khan," Encyclopedia of Islam THREE. 3:24-28.

87. Michal Biran. "Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia (MONGOL)." medieval worlds 8 (Transcultural Contacts and Literary Exchanges) (2018), pp. 135-154.

88. Michal Biran. "Tang Foreign Relations," forthcoming-b in Y. Schihor, Y. Pines and G. Shelach, eds. All Under Heaven: A History of Tradional China. Tel Aviv: Open University, Vol. 2, 22 pp.

89. Michal Biran: "From Chinggis Khan to Qubilai Khan: The United Mongol Empire (1206-1260). forthcoming-c in Y. Schihor, Y. Pines and G. Shelach, eds. All Under Heaven: A History of Tradional China. Tel Aviv: Open University, Vol. 3, 28 pp.

90. Michal Biran. 2020. "The Qara Khitai." In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.59.

91. Michal Biran, 2019.  Review of Denise Aigle, The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality (Leiden: Brill, 2014). Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 46: 393-398.

92. Biran, Michal.  2022. Review of “The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources Edited and Translated by Christopher Pratt Atwood, with Lynn Struve (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2021), Journal of Chinese History 6, no. 2: 365–367.  doi:10.1017/jch.2022.16.

93. Michal Biran. 2022. “Morgan, David Orrin”. Encyclopedia Iranica Online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-iranica-online/morgan-david-orrin-COM_365268.