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Leyde, Brill, 2014Editeur : BRILL. 87 pp., 9 illus., 4 tables, 5 maps, 107 € Volume 11 de la collection Iran Studies ISBN 13 : 9789004277496ISSN : 1569-7401&#160;In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West. The first part is devoted to “The memoria of the Mongols in historical and literary sources” in which she examines how the Mongol rulers were perceived by the peoples with whom they were in contact. In “Shamanism and Islam” she studies the perception of shamanism by Muslim authors and their attempts to integrate Genghis Khan and his successors into an Islamic framework. The last sections deal with geopolitical questions involving the Ilkhans, the Mamluks, and the Latin West. Genghis Khan’s successors claimed the protection of “Eternal Heaven” to justify their conquests even after their Islamization. &#160;Table des matières:IntroductionTHE MEMORIA OF THE MONGOLS IN HISTORICAL AND LITERARY SOURCESChapter One. Mythico-legendary figures and history between East and WestChapter Two. The Mongols and the legend of Prester JohnChapter Three. The historiographical works of Barhebreaus on the Mongol periodChapter Four. The historical taqwīm in Muslim EastSHAMANISM AND ISLAMChapter Five. Shamanism and Islam in Central Asia. Two antinomic religious universes?Chapter Six. The transformation of a myth of origins, Genghis Khan and TimurChapter Seven. Mongol law versus Islamic law. Myth and realityCONQUERING THE WORLD PROTECTED BY THE TENGGERIChapter Eight. From ‘non-negociation’ to an abortive alliance. Thoughts on the diplomatic exchanges between the Mongols and the Latin WestChapter Nine. Hülegü’s letters to the last Ayyubid ruler of Syria. The construction of a modelMAMLUKS AND ILKHANS. THE QUEST OF LEGITIMACYChapter Ten. Legitimizing a regicide monarch. Baybars and the IlkhansChapter Eleven. The written and the spoken word. Baybars and the caliphal investiture ceremonies in CairoChapter Twelve. The Ghazan Khan’s invasion of Syria. Polemics on his conversion to Islam and the Christian troops in his armyChapter Thirteen. A religious response to Ghazan Khan’s invasion of Syria. The three ‘anti-Mongol’ fatwās of Ibn TaymiyyaEpilogue. The Mongol empire after Genghis Khan