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List of PublicationsList of Publications
Books
Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon press, 1997.
Reviews in
• Times Literary Supplement, 22.1.99;
• Mongolian Studies, XXI (1998), 87-89;
• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 62/3 (1999), 589-90;
• Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 29 (1999), 202-214;
• International Journal of Middle East Studies, 32/2 (May 2000), 284-287;
• Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120/1 (2000), 139-40;
• Bulletin critique des annales islamiques, no. 6, 2000, 94-95
The Qara Khitai Empire in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Reviews in
•BSOAS , 69/2 (June 2006), 329-330;
•Journal of Islamic Studies, 2006 17: 379-382;
•Medieval Encounters, 12/2 (June 2006), 300-305;
•Choice, June 2006 (Winner: Outstanding Academic Titles of 2006);
•Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17/1 (Jan.2007), 86-89;
•Journal of Asian Studies, 66/1 (Feb. 2007), 236-238;
Chinggis Khan. Michal Biran. x+182pp, One World Publications, Oxford, 2007 (in the series "The Makers of the Muslim World).
Books Edited
Edited, With Reuven Amitai. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the World. Leiden: Brill, 2005
Reviews in
•Journal of World History 17.1 (2006) 95-97
•Journal of Asian Studies 66/1 (Feb. 2007), 232-34
Articles in Collections
•Michal Biran. “The Battle of Herat (1270): A Case of Inter-Mongol Warfare.” In Nicola Di Cosmo, ed. Warfare in Inner Asia. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002: 175-220.
•Michal Biran, "The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire." In Johan P. Arnason and Björn Wittrock, eds. Eurasian Transformations Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances. 23pp. 2004, E. J. Brill, Leiden and Boston.
•Michal Biran. ”True To Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai did not Convert to Islam," In Reuven Amitai and
•Michal Biran, eds. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005: 175-169.
•Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. "Introduction." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005, 1-13.
•Michal Biran. "Ilak-khanids (or Qarakhanids)." In Encyclopedia Iranica, vol. XII, 621-28. 8pp. 2005, Columbia University Press, New York.
•Michal Biran. "Between China and Islam: The Administration of the Qara Khitai Empire." In David Sneath, ed. Imperial Statecrafts: Political Forms and Techniques of Governance in Inner Asia C6th- C20th. Bellingham, WA: Western Washington University Press, 2006: 63-84.
•Michal Biran. "Central Asia from the Conquest of Chinggis Khan to the Rise of Tamerlane: The Ögodeied and Chaghadaid Realms." In Peter B. Golden, Nicola Di Cosmo and Allan Frank, eds. The Cambridge History of Inner Asia vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009: 46-66.
•Michal Biran. "The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: The Case of the Khitans of China." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Forthcoming in Hawaii University Press. 25pp.
•Michal Biran. "Introduction: Nomadic Culture." In Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds. Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change. Forthcoming in Hawaii University Press. 15pp.
•Michal Biran. "Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370)." In David Durand-Guedy, ed. Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life in Iran and the Neighboring Countries. Forthcoming in Leiden: Brill.35pp.
•Michal Biran. "The Mongols and the Inter-Civilizational Exchange. " In Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry Wiesner-Hanks , eds. The Cambridge History of the World: Vol. 5 Forthcoming in Cambridge University Press. 28 +12 pp.
Articles in Journals
• Michal Biran, 2001a. "Like a Mighty Wall: The Armies of the Qara Khitai," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 25: 44-91.
• Michal Biran, 2001b. “Qarakhanid Studies: A View from the Qara Khitai Edge,” Cahiers d’Asia Centrale, 9: 73-85.
• Michal Biran, 2002 [2003]. “The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34)”. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122.4: 742-752.
• Michal Biran, 2003. “The Impact of the Mongol Conquests on the Steppe Peoples’ Collective Identities,” The Van Leer’s Arena for Public Discourse 7: 90-99 (in Hebrew).
• Michal Biran, 2004. "The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire." Medieval Encounters, 10/1-3: 338-361.
• Michal Biran, 2007-8. "Culture and Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Realm (1220-1370)- Some Preliminary Notes." Chronika, 7-8: 26-43.
• Michal Biran. 2008b. "Chaghadaid Diplomacy and Chancellery Practices: Some Preliminary Remarks," Oriente Moderno, 88/2: 369-92.
• Michal Biran. 2010. "Chinggis Khan in China and in the Muslim World: Between Hero and Anti Hero," Acta Mongolica, 10:143-150.
• Michal Biran. forthcoming. "Khitan Migrations in Inner Asia," Central Eurasian Studies, 2012
• Michal Biran, forthcoming. " The Liao and the Muslim World: Migrations, Commerce and Mutual Perceptions," Journal of Song Yuan Studies
Hebrew Publications (Articles and Chapters):
• Michal Biran, 2003. “The Impact of the Mongol Conquests on the Steppe Peoples’ Collective Identities.” The Van Leer’s Arena for Public Discourse,7: 90-99 (in Hebrew).
• Michal Biran. 2008a. "Eurasian Images of Chinggis Khan: Between Myth and Reality. " Zmanim, 100 :56-71 (in Hebrew).
• Michal Biran. "Tang Foreign Relations," forthcoming in Y. Schihor, Y. Pines and G. Shelach, eds. All Under Heaven: A History of Tradional China. Tel Aviv: Open University, Vol. 2, 22 pp.
Reviews and Shorter Publications:
• Michal Biran, 2000. Review of Charles Melville’s The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran. Iranian Studies, 33/1-2: 245-6.
• Michal Biran, 2001. "China, Nomads and Islam: The Qara Khitai (Western Liao) Dynasty, 1124-1218: Dissertation Abstract. Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 31: 363-5.
• Michal Biran, 2002. Review of Matthew S. Gordon’s The Breaking of a Thousand Swords. A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra. International History Review, 24/2: 389-91.
• Michal Biran, 2003 [2004]. Review of Thomas T. Allsen’s Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123.2: 446-7.
• Michal Biran, Review of George Lane's Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 30 (2005).
•Michal Biran, 2006a. "Genghis Khan." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 1: 280-82.
• Michal Biran, 2006b. "Silk Roads." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 2: 745-9.
• Michal Biran, 2006c. "Tamerlane." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Routledge), ed. J. W. Meri, 2:796-8.
• Michal Biran, 2008. Review of Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Itinerario: International Journal on European Expansion and Global interaction. 32: 146-148.
• Michal Biran, 2009a. "Jochi," Encyclopedia Iranica, 15: 1-2.
• Michal Biran, 2009b. "Jovayni, Shams al-Din," Encyclopedia Iranica, 15: 71-74.
• Michal Biran, 2009c. Review of Istvan Vasary's Cumans and Tatars. Canada Slavonic Papers, 51/2: 352-3. \
• Michal Biran, 2009d. Review of Anne F. Broadbridge. Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol World. Journal of Central Eurasian Studies, 1: 111-15.
•Michal Biran. 2010. Studies on the Mongol Empire from the Perspective of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (1989-2009). " Perspectives and Research Trends on the Conquest Dynasties in Foreign Scholarship (Seoul),2: 149-64 [Published in Korean].
• Michal Biran, 2011. Review of David M. Robinson, Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 71/2: 370-77.
•Michal Biran, forthcoming-a. Review of Linda Komaroff (ed). Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan (Leiden: Brill, 2006), forthcoming in MESA bulletin.
•Michal Biran, forthcoming-b "Chapar b. Ḳaydū", Enciclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition.
•Michal Biran, forthcoming-c "Transoxania." In Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone et. al. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Papers Read in Conferences
• Michal Biran "Sinicization outside of China? - The Case of the Western Liao (Qara Khitai) 1124-1218.” Paper read in the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Asian Studies, Boston, March 1999.
• Michal Biran. “Conquerors and Conquered in the Army: Auxiliary Forces in Pre-Mongol and Mongol Central Asia.” Paper read at the weekly seminar of the Research Group “The Interaction of Nomadic Rulers with Sedentary People: Turco-Mongolian Nomads in China and the Middle East”, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, May 2000.
•Michal Biran. “China, Nomads and Islam: Nomad-Sedentary Relations under the Qara Khitai (Western Liao).” Paper read at the conference “Euroasian Nomads and the Outside World,” Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, June 2000.
•Michal Biran. “China, Nomads and Islam: Multi-Culturalism under the Qara Khitai (Western Liao) 1124-1218.” Paper read at the 7th European Conference of Central Asian Studies, Vienna, September 27-30, 2000.
• Michal Biran. “The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-1334).” Paper read at the 2nd conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Madison, WI, October 11-14, 2001.
• Michal Biran. “The Chaghadaid Mongols and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-1334).” Lecture, the Institute for Advanced Study Islamic Seminar, Princeton NJ, November 28, 2001.
• Michal Biran. “Muslims, Mongols and Chinese: The Khitans after the Mongol Conquest.” Lecture, the East Asian Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, February 12, 2002.
• Michal Biran.“Why did not the Qara Khitai (1124-1218) convert to Islam?” Lecture, the Historical Studies Colloquia, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, March 4, 2002.
• Michal Biran. “The Mongols in Central Asia and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan,” Paper read at The Mongolia Society 41st Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 4-6, 2002
• Michal Biran. “China, Nomads and Islam: Nomad-Sedentary Relations under the Qara Khitai.” Invited lecture, the Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, May 1st 2002.
• Michal Biran. “Mongols, Turks and Chinese: The Khitans after the Mongol Conquests.” Paper read at the workshop “The Age of Nomadic Power,” Davis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, July 12-13, 2002.
• Michal Biran. “Mongols, Muslims or Chinese: Khitan States after the Mongol Conquest.” Paper read at the International Conference of Mongol-Yuan Studies, Nanjing University, PR China, August 12-14, 2002.
• Michal Biran. “Mongols, Turks and Chinese: Khitans in China after the Mongol Conquest.” Paper read at the 2nd conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, January 20, 2003.
• Michal Biran. “Eurasian Transformations 10th-13th centuries: The Mongol Case.” Paper read at the workshop “Eurasian Transformations 11th –13th centuries: An Ecumenical Renaissance?” Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala June 26-27, 2003.
• Michal Biran. "From the Accursed to the Revered Father: Chinggis Khan in the Muslim World (13th-14th Centuries)." Paper Read at the 4th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Harvard University, Cambridge MA, October 2-5, 2003.
• Michal Biran. "From Mongols to Chinese: The Khitans after the Mongol Conquests." Paper read at the International Symposium on Nomadic and Sedentary People in Past and Present,Universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig, Wittenberg, Germany, November 27 -29 , 2003.
• Michal Biran."Chinggis Khan in China: From Barbarian Conqueror to National Hero." Paper read in the 3rd Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, Haifa, February 1-2 , 2004.
• Michal Biran. "Between China and Islam: The Administration of the Qara Khitai Empire." Paper read at the " Symposium on Inner Asian Statecrafts and Technologies of Governance, The Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge UK, March 18-19, 2004.
• Michal Biran. "Turkishness and Islam among the Qara Khitai (12th-16th centuries)." Paper Read at the 2nd International Congress of Turkish Civilizations, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan October 4-7, 2004.
• Michal Biran. "The Position of the Ruler in Central Asia." In the Roundtable "The Position of the Ruler in Asia" at the 4th annual Israeli Conference for Asian Studies, May 29-30, 2005.
• Michal Biran. "Culture and Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Realm (1220-1370)." Paper read at the 6th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Boston University, MA, USA, September 29- October 2, 2005.
• Michal Biran. "The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: The Case of the Khitans in China." Paper read at the international research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, "Eurasian Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change", Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Studies, HU, June 5-8 2006.
• Michal Biran. "Mongol Diet: From Mice and Dogs to Gourmet Fusion Cuisine." Paper read at the 5th Conference of East Asian Studies in Israel, Tel Aviv, June 11-12 2006.
•"Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Realm (1220-1370)." Paper read at the Second International Conference of Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe, Jászberény, Hungary, May 24–26, 2007.
•"Culture and Cross-Cultural Contacts in the Chaghadaid Khanate (1260-1370)." Paper read at the conference "The Middle Ages Now," Bar Ilan University, March 27, 2008.
•"The Non-Existant Corpus of the Chaghadaid Khanate." Paper read at the conference Les correspondances diplomatiques dans l’Orient musulman (XIe-XVIIe s.) Istanbul, April 9-10, 2008.
•"Intellectuals and the State in Central Asia." In the roundtable: Intellectuals, State and Society in Asia" in the 7th annual Israeli conference for Asian Studies, Jerusalem, May 21-22, 2008.
•"Migrations, Religious and Ethnic Changes in the Wake of the Mongol Empire." Paper read at the 18th Meeting of World History Association, London, June 25-28, 2008.
•"Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia." Paper read at the conference: Turco-Mongolian Rulers, Cities and City-life in Iran and the neighboring Countries; Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, Japan September 12-13 2009.
• “Chinggis Khan in China and the Muslim World: Between Hero and Anti-Hero.” Paper read at the Joint conference of the Hebrew University and the National University of Mongolia From Mongol Empire to Modern Mongolia, National University of Mongolia,Ulaan Baatar, August 13, 2010.
•"Khitan Migrations in Inner Asia." Paper read at the international conference "Conquest, Migration and Cultural Exchanges in Central Eurasia," Seoul, 3 December 2010.
•"The Mongol Empire in World History." In the International Workshop"The Cambridge History of the World Volume 5," Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Studies, HU, February 6-8, 2011.
•"Who Counted Kin and How: Warrior Groups, State Regimes and Social Boundaries in Central, East and South Asia, ca. 1200-1850ce," Chair and discussant in Joint Conference of the Association of Asian Studies and International Convention of Asia Scholars, Honolulu, Hawaii March 31-April 3, 2011.
•"The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad 1258-2008." Paper read at the 10th Annual Israeli Conference for Asian Studies, Jerusalem, May 24-26, 2011.
•"Qarakhanid Eastern Trade: The Silk Roads in the 11th-12th Centuries." Paper read at the international conference The Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millenium AD: Empires, Cities, Nomads, Farmers, Bonn, February 9-11.2012.
•"Migrations in the Mongol Empire: Types and Some Consequences." Paper read at the Sino-Israeli Workshop: New Perspectives on Pre-Modern Chinese History. Jerusalem March 11-12, 2012.
•"World Conquest and Imperial Space in the Mongol Empire." Paper read at the nternational workshop Imperial Space: The Organization of Near Eastern Empires from the Second Millenium BC to the Second Millenium AD, Topoi Excellence Center, Berlin, May 3-5, 2012.