De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan describes how the writing of the history of Tamerlane by French scholars between the 16th and 18th c. led to a reinterpretation of the history of Genghis Khan. Based on a supposed common origin of these two emperors, the idea of a «Tartar empire» structured the perception of the history of the Orient until the 19th century. Matthieu Chochoy highlights the dynamics and networks within which this idea circulated, the sources mainly produced in Persia and China that fed this paradigm and the stages of its deconstruction.
In this perspective, this book stands at the crossroads of the history of scholarship in France in the classical age and the intellectual history of Orientalism.
Matthieu Chochoy, Ph.D. (2016), Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres, is a post-doc at the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamicate Intellectual History (Bonn). He works on the intellectual history of Orientalism and on French scholarly networks.
8 Lâ empire tartare comme « partie de lâ histoire universelle »
â1âLa double formation de Joseph de Guignes
â2âLa tentative de synthèse historiographique
â3âLa distinction entre les Tartares occidentaux et les Tartares orientaux
All interested in the intellectual history of Orientalism, Mongol and Timurid history and anyone concerned with scholarship and the perception of the world in in pre-modern time.