New book: “A History of Herat, from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane”
“A History of Herat, from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane” (Edinburgh UP) is now in print (30th Sep 2022). Part 1 is “imperial and local histories”: political-military history of the Mongol invasions of Khurasan, sieges of Balkh, Marw, Nishapur, Herat; establishment by Mongols of the (Tajik) Kartid dynasts at Herat; Kartid-Ilkhanid cooperation and clashes; Herat’s relations with Delhi Sultanate; independent Kartid rule until Tamerlane invasion of Iran.
