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PERIOD GUIDE · Iran (Persia)

Mongol and Ilkhanid Iran: a palace and a mausoleum

The Met's timeline lists Mongol rule from 1221 to 1256 and the Ilkhanid dynasty from 1256 to 1353. A new dynasty already rises in the south before the row ends, so it overlaps the row that follows.

1221-1353 CE
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Its place in the Iran (Persia) scheme

The whole scheme with this period marked; the periods before and after are its neighbours in the row. Boundaries follow the sources and are not to scale.

All periods and subdivisions
  1. The Neolithic in Iran8,000-5,000 BCE
  2. The Chalcolithic in Iran5,000-3,500 BCE
  3. The Early Bronze Age in Iran3,500-2,000 BCE
  4. The Middle Bronze Age and Old Elamite period in Iran2,000-1,500 BCE
  5. Elam1,500-539 BCE
  6. The Iron Age in northern and western Iran1,450-550 BCE
  7. Achaemenid Iran559-330 BCE
  8. Seleucid Iran323-247 BCE
  9. Parthian Iran247 BCE - 224 CE
  10. Sasanian Iran224-651 CE
  11. Early Islamic Iran651-1,040 CE
  12. Seljuq and Khwarazmshah Iran1,040-1,221 CE
  13. Mongol and Ilkhanid Iran1,221-1,353 CE
  14. Iran from the Muzaffarids to the Timurids and Turkmen1,340-1,508 CE

The frame

The Met's timeline for Iran, 1000-1400 lists "Mongol rule, 1221-1256" and the "Ilkhanid dynasty, 1256-1353". Following conflict with the Khwarazmshah dynasty, the Mongols sweep through and take control of Iran; their conquests, the page says, devastate the region and affect the balance of artistic production. The Ilkhanids, the branch of the Mongol dynasty that takes control of West Asia after putting a definitive end to the Abbasid caliphate (1258), establish rule from the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran; following the Ilkhanid sultan Ghazan's conversion to Islam in 1295, both religious and secular arts flourish. Source 1.

Boundaries and overlaps

At the start of the row, 1221 is the end of the Khwarazmshah dynasty in the list. At its end, the Muzaffarid dynasty in the south begins in the list ca. 1340, thirteen years before the end of the Ilkhanid dynasty in 1353, so the site's last row for Iran begins in 1340, before this one ends. The Jalayirids, a Mongol family that establishes rule over Iraq and northwestern Iran, are listed ca. 1360-1406. Source 1.

On this site

Two items: "Soltaniyeh: the mausoleum of Oljaytu", built according to UNESCO in 1302-12 and according to the Met in 1307-13; and "Takht-e Soleyman: a Sasanian sanctuary rebuilt under the Ilkhanids", placed here for its 13th-century rebuilding and the Ilkhanid palace the Met dates ca. 1275, and also under the Sasanian period. Sources 2, 1, 3.

Source

Sources and further reading

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  1. 1 Iran, 1000-1400 A.D. (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, chronology)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Checked

  2. 2 Soltaniyeh

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Checked

  3. 3 Takht-e Soleyman

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Checked

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Seljuq and Khwarazmshah Iran: a mosque and mausolea

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Iran from the Muzaffarids to the Timurids and Turkmen: overlapping dynasties

Approximately 1340-1501/1508 CE

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