Abstract

Historians examine the Mongol practice of holding interfaith court debates either with regard to the efforts of religious representatives to convert the khans, or as emblematic of the Mongols’ religious pluralism. However, staging interfaith debates had other religious and political purposes as well. The debate was an arena for the religiously and ideologically charged performance of the Mongol khan’s own divine-like wisdom and model of sacral, deified kingship. From the Mongol perspective, the objectives of the debate were not only different from those of its religious participants, but the debate further represented an altogether different mode of religiosity. Situating the debate in the context of the Mongol religious world view, this article proceeds to examine it in the Mongol court in medieval Iran (the Ilkhanate) shortly after its conversion to Islam. Muslim interlocutors there identified and exploited the Mongols’ religious logic to reinforce the Mongol rulers’ conversion. They transformed the debate into a forum for experimenting with a new synthesis of Mongol and Muslim, divinized and righteous, kingship. The continuous role of the debate in the performance of sacral monarchy among the Mongols’ successors, especially the Mughals in early modern India, testifies to the enduring impact of Mongol religiosity on the Islamic world.

中文翻译：

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分解天堂：信仰不同的辩论，King骨王权和蒙古帝国（1260-1335年）转变为伊斯兰教*

摘要

历史学家考察了蒙古举行宗教间法庭辩论的做法，这些宗教辩论涉及宗教代表改变可汗的努力，或者是蒙古人宗教多元化的象征。但是，进行不同信仰间的辩论还有其他宗教和政治目的。这场辩论是蒙古人汗具有神圣性的智慧和神圣，尊贵的王权榜样的宗教和意识形态表现的舞台。从蒙古人的角度来看，辩论的目的不仅不同于其宗教参与者的目的，而且进一步代表了完全不同的宗教信仰方式。在蒙古宗教世界观的背景下进行辩论，本文着手将其转换为伊斯兰教后不久，在中世纪的伊朗（伊尔汗国）的蒙古法院对其进行审查。那里的穆斯林对话者确定并利用了蒙古人的宗教逻辑，以加强蒙古统治者的conversion依。他们把辩论变成了一个论坛，以试验新的蒙古和穆斯林神灵化和王权的综合。这场辩论在蒙古继任者，特别是现代印度早期的穆加人继任的mon邦君主制中不断发挥作用，这证明了蒙古宗教对伊斯兰世界的持久影响。神性公义，王权。这场辩论在蒙古继任者，特别是现代印度早期的穆加人继任的mon邦君主制中不断发挥作用，这证明了蒙古宗教对伊斯兰世界的持久影响。神性公义，王权。这场辩论在蒙古继任者，特别是现代印度早期的穆加人继任的mon邦君主制中不断发挥作用，这证明了蒙古宗教对伊斯兰世界的持久影响。