Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Mongol Empire -- The dissolution of the Mongol Empire -- From ulus to khanate : the making of the Mongol states, c. 1220-c. 1290 -- Hülegü Khan and the Christians : the making of a myth -- The Mongols and the faith of the conquered -- World-conquest and local accommodation : threat and blandishment in Mongol diplomacy -- The formation of Muslim India -- The fall of the Ghurid Dynasty -- Turkish slaves on Islam's Indian frontier -- The Mamluk institution in early Muslim India -- Sultan Ra'iyya bint Iltutmish -- The Mongols and the Delhi Sultanate -- Jalal al-Din, the Mongols, and the Khwarazmian conquest of the Panjab and Sind -- The Mongols and the Delhi Sultanate in the reign of Muhammad Tughluq (1325-1351) -- Delhi : the problem of a vast military encampment.