Download or read book The Court of the Il-khans, 1290-1340 written by Julian Raby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the proceedings of a special conference held at the Barakat Trust Conference in Islamic art and history held at St John's College, Oxford in 1994, on the politics and artistic patronage of the Il-Khanid court in Iran between about AD 1290 and 1340. The Il-Khanids were of Mongol origin, and the papers range from their contacts with China to the way which they were perceived by their Mamluk rivals in Egypt.