11.14: Links to Primary Sources
Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela eds, Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources
https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253013590
Medieval Sourcebook:
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325 – 1354
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/so...ibnbattuta.asp
Sacred Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/index.htm
William of Rubruck’s Account of the Mongols
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad...s/rubruck.html
Description of Mongol warfare from Friar John of Plano Carpini
http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCE...ES/carpini.htm
The Book of Dede Korkut
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Dede_Korkut
Ibn al-Athir: On The Tatars, 1220 – 1221CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...ir-mongols.asp
Marco Polo: On the Tartars
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/so...mpolo44-46.asp
Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273 CE): from The Masnavi, c. 1250 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...mi-masnavi.asp
Jalal-ad-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273 CE): The Fairest Land, c. 1250 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...umi-poems2.asp
Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273): Poems from the Divan-I Shams-I Tabriz, c. 1270 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s...umi-poems1.asp
Hafiz (1325 – 1389 CE): Verses in Praise of God, c. 1370 CE
legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/s.../1370hafiz.asp