Conqueror, peasant, or lawyer, death comes for us all sooner or later. Here, we look at the Death of Chinggis Khan in August 1227. His final days were shrouded in secrecy as per the Khagan’s final wishes, and thus we are left with a variety of theories, some more likely than others, from our sources across Asia and the Mongol Empire. From falling off horseback to wily Gurbelchin, it’s quite the collection!
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PRIMARY SOURCES: (Links in pinned comment for some of them)
The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. Translated by Igor de Rachewiltz. Edited by John C. Street. See chapter 12, page 185-189.
de Rachewiltz’s commentaries: relevant section begins page 980.
Rashiddudin Fazlullah. Jami’ u’t-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles: A History of the Mongols. Translated by W. M. Thackston. Cambridge: MA, 1998.
Juzjani. Ṭabaḳāt-i-Nāṣirï: A General History of the Muhammadan Dynasties of Asia. Vol. II. Translated by H.G Raverty. London: Gilbert & Rivington, 1881.
See pages 1085-1096 (curse you Raverty and your huge footnotes)
‘Ala-ad-Din ‘Ata-Malik Juvaini, The History of the World-Conqueror. Vol. I. Translated by John Andrew Boyle. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1958.
See pages 180-183
Erdeni-yin Tobchi: Geschichte der Ost-Mongolen und Ihres Fürstenhauses, verfasst von Ssanag Ssetsen. Translated by Isaac Jacob Schmidt. St. Petersburg, 1829. See pages 100-102 for Gurbelchin (in German)
The Travels of Marco Polo. Translated by William Marsden. Wordsworth Publishers, Hertfordshire, 1997. See page 67.
SECONDARY SOURCES:
Atwood, Christopher. Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire. 2004
Batbayar, Tsedendamba. “Tracing the Last Military Campaign of Chinggis Khan: Myth and Reality.”
Bat-Ochir Bold. “The death and burial of Chinggis Khaan.” Central Asian Survey 19 no. 1 (2000): 95-115.
Boyle, John Andrew. “The Thirteenth-Century Mongols’ Conception of the After Life: The Evidence of their Funerary Practices.” Mongolian Studies 1 (1974): 5-14.
Elverskog, Johan. “The Legend of Muna Mountain.” Inner Asia 8 (2006): 99-122.
Man, John. The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs, and the Founding of Modern China. Bantam Press, 2015. He has an interesting ’on the ground’ section where he visits the Liupanshan.
McLynn, Frank. Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy. De Capo Press, 2015.
Pelliot, Paul. Notes on Marco Polo, Vol I. 1959. Relevant section begins page 305.
Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. Translated and edited by Thomas Nivison Haining. Blackwell Publishers Ltd.: Oxford, 1991.
Wright, David C. “The Death of Chinggis Khan in Mongolian, Chiense, Persian, and European Sources.” Historical and Linguistic Interaction between Inner Asia and Europe 1997. 425-433
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