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572 Reviews Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti (eds.), Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia. Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals, Oakland: Uni- versity of California Press 2020, xiii + 338 pp., ISBN 9780520298743. Reviewed by Jürgen Paul, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, juergen.paul@uni-hamburg.de https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2021-0034 One of the major difficulties in researching and writing the history of the Mongol world empire in comparative perspective, taking both the unified empire (roughly Reviews 573 until 1260) and its successor states into account (for most regions, until the mid- or later fourteenth century), is the awe-inspiring wealth of source lang-uages. Lan guage means not only a linguistic system, but also the cultural background and context within which historiographical and other sources were produced. This calls for interdisciplinary endeavours, and the volume under review is a splendid example of what can be achieved once scholars take interdisciplinarity seriously. This also presupposes that part of the involved scholars have competences in more than one field, and in this case, that most prominently applies to Michal Biran, expert in both Chinese and Muslim sources and director of the ERC grant ‘Mobility Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia’ based at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. The
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