Genghis Khan
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Haunted by history
Razib Khan compares how Genghis Khan is remembered, as a hero in Mongolia and a prestigious ancestor to Muslim dynasties despite mass destruction, with attitudes to Aurangzeb, asking how historical…
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A Mongol India, a pagan India?
Taking up a Twitter counterfactual, the author asks what might have followed had the Mongols destroyed the Delhi Sultanate, surveying how the Mongol khanates adopted Islam or Buddhism to speculate…
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Between Marx and the mullah
The author argues that ancient DNA shows massive past population turnovers, yet premodern states lacked the capacity for coordinated genocide, so Latin American collapse owed more to disease and famine,…
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Book Review: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Omar Ali reviews Jack Weatherford’s very sympathetic, easy-reading account of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and argues that Temujin refutes the idea that individuals do not matter in history, noting…
