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'''Muqali''' ({{langx|mn|Мухулай}}; 1170–1223), also spelt '''Mukhali''' and '''Mukhulai''', was a Mongol general ("bo'ol", {{trans|one who is bound}} in service) who became a trusted and esteemed commander under [[Genghis Khan]]. The son of Gü'ün U'a, a [[Jalair]] leader who had sworn fealty to the Mongols, he became known by his epithet "Muqali", "one who dulls", earned through his committed and able service to the [[Great Khan]] and the [[Mongol Empire]].<ref name="power, politics"/> |
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During the invasion of [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin China]], Muqali acted as Genghis Khan's second-in-command, was promoted to Viceroy of China,<ref name="power, politics"/> and was entrusted with a great degree of autonomy once Genghis Khan departed to conquer Central Asia. Unlike many Mongol leaders who were willing to massacre to gain any advantage, Muqali usually attempted to convert foes into friends by more conciliatory means.<ref>Frank McLynn, Genghis Khan (2015), 231.</ref> |
During the invasion of [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin China]], Muqali acted as Genghis Khan's second-in-command, was promoted to Viceroy of China,<ref name="power, politics"/> and was entrusted with a great degree of autonomy once Genghis Khan departed to conquer Central Asia. Unlike many Mongol leaders who were willing to massacre to gain any advantage, Muqali usually attempted to convert foes into friends by more conciliatory means.<ref>Frank McLynn, Genghis Khan (2015), 231.</ref> |
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==Life== |
==Life== |
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Muqali, third son of Gü'ün U'a, was born into the 'White' clan of the [[Jalairs|Jalair]] tribe, who had been the hereditary serfs of the [[Borjigin]] Mongols. Originally associated with the Jurkin branch of the Borjigin, Muqali's father and uncles pledged allegiance to [[Temujin]] (Genghis Khan's original name) when he defeated the [[Jurkin]] in 1197. Gü'ün U'a offered his son Muqali to [[Temujin]] as a personal slave (''emčü bo'ol'').<ref>de Rachewiltz, I. (ed.) (1993) ''In the Service of the Khan'', Harrassowitz Verlag, Weisbaden</ref> Several servants of Genghis Khan would be later appointed to prominent positions in his army, such as [[Jelme]], who was promised as a slave to Genghis as an infant, and later rose to the position of captain of a [[Mingghan]]. During his time spent as Genghis Khan's servant, he and Genghis Khan presumably became very close.<ref name="power, politics">{{cite book|last=Hope|first=Michael|url=https:// |
Muqali, third son of Gü'ün U'a, was born into the 'White' clan of the [[Jalairs|Jalair]] tribe, who had been the hereditary serfs of the [[Borjigin]] Mongols. Originally associated with the Jurkin branch of the Borjigin, Muqali's father and uncles pledged allegiance to [[Temujin]] (Genghis Khan's original name) when he defeated the [[Jurkin]] in 1197. Gü'ün U'a offered his son Muqali to [[Temujin]] as a personal slave (''emčü bo'ol'').<ref>de Rachewiltz, I. (ed.) (1993) ''In the Service of the Khan'', Harrassowitz Verlag, Weisbaden</ref> Several servants of Genghis Khan would be later appointed to prominent positions in his army, such as [[Jelme]], who was promised as a slave to Genghis as an infant, and later rose to the position of captain of a [[Mingghan]]. During his time spent as Genghis Khan's servant, he and Genghis Khan presumably became very close.<ref name="power, politics">{{cite book|last=Hope|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vuIoDQAAQBAJ|title=Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran|page=36|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2016|isbn=9780191081071}}</ref> This intimacy would result in him becoming one of Genghis' closest advisors.<ref name="power, politics"/> |
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During the coronation of Genghis Khan in 1206, the latter recalled Muqali's support, and he was rewarded with the command of the third [[Tumen (unit)|tumen]] and control over the eastern [[mingghan]]s.<ref name="power, politics"/> He played a prominent role in the following [[Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty|campaign against Jin]],<ref name="power, politics"/> including in the 1211 [[Battle of Yehuling]], the decisive battle in the first stage of the [[Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty|Mongol conquest]] of the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]]-led [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] in northern China. |
During the coronation of Genghis Khan in 1206, the latter recalled Muqali's support, and he was rewarded with the command of the third [[Tumen (unit)|tumen]] and control over the eastern [[mingghan]]s.<ref name="power, politics"/> He played a prominent role in the following [[Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty|campaign against Jin]],<ref name="power, politics"/> including in the 1211 [[Battle of Yehuling]], the decisive battle in the first stage of the [[Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty|Mongol conquest]] of the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]]-led [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] in northern China. |
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After Genghis Khan decided to go to war with the [[Khwarazmian Empire]], he left Muqali in control of Northern China as viceroy, and gave him the title of ''gui ong'' or ''kuo-wang'',<ref name="Broadbridge">{{cite book|last=Broadbridge|first=Anne F.|url=https:// |
After Genghis Khan decided to go to war with the [[Khwarazmian Empire]], he left Muqali in control of Northern China as viceroy, and gave him the title of ''gui ong'' or ''kuo-wang'',<ref name="Broadbridge">{{cite book|last=Broadbridge|first=Anne F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vuIoDQAAQBAJ|title=Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire|page=153|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2018|isbn=9781108636629}}</ref> a title not given to any other in Genghis Khan's army,<ref name="power, politics"/><ref name="Broadbridge"/><ref name="brit">{{cite web|title=Muqali - Mongolian general|last=|first=|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muqali|publisher=[[Britannica]]|access-date=17 May 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210517202815/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muqali|archive-date=17 May 2021}}</ref> and the title of ''taishi'', a Chinese title also used by the Mongols.<ref name="clio">{{cite book|last=Buell|first=Paul D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gB9DQAAQBAJ|title=Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire|pages=8–9|publisher=[[ABC-Clio]]|year=2016|isbn=9781610693400}}</ref> Muqali also set up a Chinese-style court protocol and wore Chinese-style imperial robes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Denis C. Twitchett, Herbert Franke, John King Fairbank |title=The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368 |date=1978 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521243315 |page=362}}</ref> Despite Genghis Khan having taken most of the main Mongol forces away and being sent to the West, Muqali was able to subdue most of northern China with his small force of around 20,000 Mongols,<ref name="clio"/> although some historians give figures of between 40,000 and 70,000<ref name="McLynn">{{cite book|last=McLynn|first=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1yv3BgAAQBAJ|title=Genghis Khan The Man Who Conquered the World|page=|publisher=[[Random House]]|year=2015|isbn=9781446449295}}</ref> men to account for his foreign auxiliaries. |
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In 1217, Muqali attacked modern-day [[Hebei|Hebei Province]], northern [[Shandong|Shandong Province]], and northern [[Shaanxi|Shaanxi Province]],<ref name="McLynn"/> controlled by the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]]. This was an important agricultural area, which Muqali had largely subdued by 1219. In 1220, Muqali turned his attention to the rest of Shandong Province, conquering part of it;<ref name="hutch">{{cite book |editor=John Gillingham, John Lazenby |editor2=Peter Connolly|url=https:// |
In 1217, Muqali attacked modern-day [[Hebei|Hebei Province]], northern [[Shandong|Shandong Province]], and northern [[Shaanxi|Shaanxi Province]],<ref name="McLynn"/> controlled by the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]]. This was an important agricultural area, which Muqali had largely subdued by 1219. In 1220, Muqali turned his attention to the rest of Shandong Province, conquering part of it;<ref name="hutch">{{cite book |editor=John Gillingham, John Lazenby |editor2=Peter Connolly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLYoDAAAQBAJ|title=The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare|page=222|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|year=2016|isbn=9781135936747}}</ref> four towns were captured, but the hard-pressed Jin forces managed to hold on elsewhere in the province. After suffering a number of devastating defeats by Muqali in the field, the Jin learned that they could only hope to resist him by holding their cities and outlasting Muqali's staying power.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} |
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===Final campaign and death=== |
===Final campaign and death=== |
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Muqali's last campaign was in the 1220s. He crossed the Ordos in mid-1221, spending the rest of the year conquering major cities in northern and central |
Muqali's last campaign was in the 1220s. He crossed the Ordos in mid-1221, spending the rest of the year conquering major cities in northern and central [[Shaanxi]].<ref name="cambridge">{{cite book |editor=Herbert Franke |editor2=Denis C. Twitchett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iN9Tdfdap5MC|title=The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368|page=36|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=1978|isbn=9780521243315}}</ref> He crossed the Yellow River into Shaanxi, first conquering, in November 1221, the strategic [[Jia County, Shaanxi|Jiazhou]].<ref name="wang, rachewiltz">{{cite book|last1=de Rachewiltz|first1=Igor|last2=Wang|first2=May|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kG45gi7E3hsC|title=In the Service of the Khan Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200-1300)|page=7|publisher=[[Harrassowitz Verlag|Harrassowitz]]|year=1993|isbn=}}</ref> Then, in the following months, he conquered the major Jin strongholds in northern and western Shaanxi.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> Crossing again the Yellow river on ice<ref name="McLynn"/> from the operational area near the [[Luo River (Shaanxi)|Luo River]] in the Spring of 1222,<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> he recaptured many towns in [[Shanxi]], including [[Turpan|Xizhou]] and [[Dai Prefecture|Daizhou]].<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> He then left Mönggü Buqa (Bukha)<ref name="cambridge"/><ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> in charge in Shaanxi and [[Gansu]],<ref name="cambridge"/> and moved with the main army to Yuzhou, from thence to Jizhou, conquering all the Jin strongholds in the valley of the [[Fen River]]. He then took the strategic [[Hezhong Prefecture|Hezhong]] at the end of 1222,<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> conquering the major cities along the river.<ref name="cambridge"/> However, the cities of [[Jingzhao]] and [[Fengxiang District|Fengxiang]] resisted.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> |
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As he was consolidating his position on both sides of the Yellow River, he became seriously ill and died in the Spring on 1223, at 53 years of age.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> On his deathbed, Muqali declared with pride that he had never been defeated. |
As he was consolidating his position on both sides of the Yellow River, he became seriously ill and died in the Spring on 1223, at 53 years of age.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> On his deathbed, Muqali declared with pride that he had never been defeated. By the time of Ogedei's ascension in 1229, however, the Mongol detachments in China had suffered numerous setbacks, which led to a mini-revival of Jin fortunes until [[Subutai]] and [[Tolui]] were dispatched with the main Mongol army in 1232.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} |
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==Appearance and family== |
==Appearance and family== |
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He was described by Chao Hang as a very tall man with a dark complexion and wavy whiskers, who was "generous and fond of conviviality, and amusing episodes about him have been preserved in the Sung envoy's account".<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> |
He was described by Chao Hang as a very tall man with a dark complexion and wavy whiskers, who was "generous and fond of conviviality, and amusing episodes about him have been preserved in the Sung envoy's account".<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> |
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His chief wife's name was ''Lai-am'' (''Naiman''/''Buqalun''). He had eight other wives, four Mongols and four [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]]. After his death, Genghis Khan gave command to Muqali's son, {{ill|Bo’ol|zh|孛鲁|ja|ボオル}}, who had seven sons: {{ill|Taš of Jalair|zh|塔思|ja|タシュ}}, {{ill|Süγunčaq|zh|速渾察|ja|スグンチャク}}, {{ill|Ba’atul noyan|ja|バアトル (ジャライル部)}}, Bai Inal, Emegen, Ebügen, and Arkis. Tas (also called ''Čalawun'') was Muqali's favorite grandson, and the title of ''gui ong'' passed to him.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> Like Muqali, Bo'ol also recommended or appointed Chinese officials to high posts; these officials continued Chinese cultural, bureaucratic or ritual practices, employed former Jin officials and provided traditional Confucian education.<ref>{{cite book |last1=John D. Langlois Jr |title=China Under Mongol Rule |date=2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400854097 |page=458}}</ref> Although the ''gui ong'' title passed to his descendants, his autonomous command and civil authority in North China was broken up. Subsequently the ''gui ong'' and his family (Qurumchi and Nayan) became increasingly "civil" (as opposed to martial) or Confucianised in their behaviour and were sidelined during the reign of [[Mongke Khan]]; later the family joined the Confucianizing party of [[Kublai Khan]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Christopher P. Atwood |title=The Date of the ‘Secret History of the Mongols’ Reconsidered |journal=Journal of Song-Yuan Studies |date=2007 |volume=37 |pages=7-8, 16-17}}</ref> |
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==Legacy== |
==Legacy== |
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He received many posthumous honours, since as early as the 1320s.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> After his death, descendants of |
He received many posthumous honours, since as early as the 1320s.<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> After his death, descendants of Muqali served the [[Great Khan]] of the Mongols, especially those of the [[Tolui]]d lineage: prominent among these were [[Dorjeban]] and {{ill|Dorǰi|zh|朵儿只 (札剌亦儿人)|ja|ドルジ (ジャライル部)}}. A few of his descendants, such as [[Antong]] and {{ill|Baiǰu|zh|拜住 (元英宗)|ja|バイジュ (ジャライル部)}}, later became prominent officials in the [[Confucianism|Confucian]] fashion of the [[Yuan dynasty]] founded by Genghis Khan's grandson, [[Kublai Khan]]. Members of Muqali's Jalair tribe, as retainers of the Toluid [[Hulagu]], participated in the conquest of [[Persia]], then called [[Mollai]], and later founded the [[Jalayirid]] Dynasty which ruled from [[Baghdad]] after the collapse of the Hulaguid [[Ilkhanate]]. Another descendant, [[Naghachu|Naγaču]], survived the collapse of the Yuan and maintained his power under the [[Ming dynasty]].<ref>Louis Hambis (1954). Le chapitre CVIII du Yuan che : les fiefs attribués aux membres de la famille impériale et aux ministres de la cour mongole d'après l'histoire chinoise officielle de la dynastie mongole. Monographies du Tʿoung pao, v. 3. Tableau5,généalogie de muqali</ref> |
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Muqali is considered a superb leader, and one of the "very few men who could exert a real influence on Genghis Khan's decisions".<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> In seven years of campaigning in northern China, he had reduced the Jin dynasty's territories to only [[Henan|Henan Province]]. A statue of Muqali, together with [[Bo'orchu]], flanks the statue of Genghis Khan in [[Sükhbaatar Square]] in [[Ulaanbaatar]]. |
Muqali is considered a superb leader, and one of the "very few men who could exert a real influence on Genghis Khan's decisions".<ref name="wang, rachewiltz"/> In seven years of campaigning in northern China, he had reduced the Jin dynasty's territories to only [[Henan|Henan Province]]. A statue of Muqali, together with [[Bo'orchu]], flanks the statue of Genghis Khan in [[Sükhbaatar Square]] in [[Ulaanbaatar]].<ref>{{cite book |last=May |first=Timothy |date=2008 |title=Culture and Customs of Mongolia |series=Culture and Customs of Asia |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood]] |isbn=978-0-3133-3983-7 |location=Westport, Connecticut |page=137}}</ref> |
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| Native name | Мухулай |
| Other name(s) | Mukhali Mukhulai |
| Born | 1170 |
| Died | 1223 (aged 52–53) |
| Allegiance | Mongol Empire |
| Years of service | Pre-1206 – 1223 |
| Battles / wars | Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty |
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| Traditional Chinese | 木華黎 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 木华黎 | ||||||
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Muqali (Mongolian: Мухулай; 1170–1223), also spelt Mukhali and Mukhulai, was a Mongol general ("bo'ol", transl. one who is bound in service) who became a trusted and esteemed commander under Genghis Khan. The son of Gü'ün U'a, a Jalair leader who had sworn fealty to the Mongols, he became known by his epithet "Muqali", "one who dulls", earned through his committed and able service to the Great Khan and the Mongol Empire.[1]
During the invasion of Jin China, Muqali acted as Genghis Khan's second-in-command, was promoted to Viceroy of China,[1] and was entrusted with a great degree of autonomy once Genghis Khan departed to conquer Central Asia. Unlike many Mongol leaders who were willing to massacre to gain any advantage, Muqali usually attempted to convert foes into friends by more conciliatory means.[2]
By the time of Ogedei's reign (1229–1241), he was viewed as the best of the extraordinarily talented pool of Mongol generals.[3] Given his undefeated record despite very limited resources, he might be regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history. He was "unquestionably one of the leading Mongol personalities and a supreme leader".[4] His wisdom in dealing with local matters has been emphasized.[4]
Life
[edit]Muqali, third son of Gü'ün U'a, was born into the 'White' clan of the Jalair tribe, who had been the hereditary serfs of the Borjigin Mongols. Originally associated with the Jurkin branch of the Borjigin, Muqali's father and uncles pledged allegiance to Temujin (Genghis Khan's original name) when he defeated the Jurkin in 1197. Gü'ün U'a offered his son Muqali to Temujin as a personal slave (emčü bo'ol).[5] Several servants of Genghis Khan would be later appointed to prominent positions in his army, such as Jelme, who was promised as a slave to Genghis as an infant, and later rose to the position of captain of a Mingghan. During his time spent as Genghis Khan's servant, he and Genghis Khan presumably became very close.[1] This intimacy would result in him becoming one of Genghis' closest advisors.[1]
During the coronation of Genghis Khan in 1206, the latter recalled Muqali's support, and he was rewarded with the command of the third tumen and control over the eastern mingghans.[1] He played a prominent role in the following campaign against Jin,[1] including in the 1211 Battle of Yehuling, the decisive battle in the first stage of the Mongol conquest of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China.
After Genghis Khan decided to go to war with the Khwarazmian Empire, he left Muqali in control of Northern China as viceroy, and gave him the title of gui ong or kuo-wang,[6] a title not given to any other in Genghis Khan's army,[1][6][7] and the title of taishi, a Chinese title also used by the Mongols.[8] Muqali also set up a Chinese-style court protocol and wore Chinese-style imperial robes.[9] Despite Genghis Khan having taken most of the main Mongol forces away and being sent to the West, Muqali was able to subdue most of northern China with his small force of around 20,000 Mongols,[8] although some historians give figures of between 40,000 and 70,000[10] men to account for his foreign auxiliaries.
In 1217, Muqali attacked modern-day Hebei Province, northern Shandong Province, and northern Shaanxi Province,[10] controlled by the Jin dynasty. This was an important agricultural area, which Muqali had largely subdued by 1219. In 1220, Muqali turned his attention to the rest of Shandong Province, conquering part of it;[11] four towns were captured, but the hard-pressed Jin forces managed to hold on elsewhere in the province. After suffering a number of devastating defeats by Muqali in the field, the Jin learned that they could only hope to resist him by holding their cities and outlasting Muqali's staying power.[citation needed]
Final campaign and death
[edit]Muqali's last campaign was in the 1220s. He crossed the Ordos in mid-1221, spending the rest of the year conquering major cities in northern and central Shaanxi.[12] He crossed the Yellow River into Shaanxi, first conquering, in November 1221, the strategic Jiazhou.[4] Then, in the following months, he conquered the major Jin strongholds in northern and western Shaanxi.[4] Crossing again the Yellow river on ice[10] from the operational area near the Luo River in the Spring of 1222,[4] he recaptured many towns in Shanxi, including Xizhou and Daizhou.[4] He then left Mönggü Buqa (Bukha)[12][4] in charge in Shaanxi and Gansu,[12] and moved with the main army to Yuzhou, from thence to Jizhou, conquering all the Jin strongholds in the valley of the Fen River. He then took the strategic Hezhong at the end of 1222,[4] conquering the major cities along the river.[12] However, the cities of Jingzhao and Fengxiang resisted.[4] As he was consolidating his position on both sides of the Yellow River, he became seriously ill and died in the Spring on 1223, at 53 years of age.[4] On his deathbed, Muqali declared with pride that he had never been defeated. By the time of Ogedei's ascension in 1229, however, the Mongol detachments in China had suffered numerous setbacks, which led to a mini-revival of Jin fortunes until Subutai and Tolui were dispatched with the main Mongol army in 1232.[citation needed]
Appearance and family
[edit]He was described by Chao Hang as a very tall man with a dark complexion and wavy whiskers, who was "generous and fond of conviviality, and amusing episodes about him have been preserved in the Sung envoy's account".[4]
His chief wife's name was Lai-am (Naiman/Buqalun). He had eight other wives, four Mongols and four Jurchen. After his death, Genghis Khan gave command to Muqali's son, Bo’ol, who had seven sons: Taš of Jalair, Süγunčaq, Ba’atul noyan, Bai Inal, Emegen, Ebügen, and Arkis. Tas (also called Čalawun) was Muqali's favorite grandson, and the title of gui ong passed to him.[4] Like Muqali, Bo'ol also recommended or appointed Chinese officials to high posts; these officials continued Chinese cultural, bureaucratic or ritual practices, employed former Jin officials and provided traditional Confucian education.[13] Although the gui ong title passed to his descendants, his autonomous command and civil authority in North China was broken up. Subsequently the gui ong and his family (Qurumchi and Nayan) became increasingly "civil" (as opposed to martial) or Confucianised in their behaviour and were sidelined during the reign of Mongke Khan; later the family joined the Confucianizing party of Kublai Khan.[14]
Legacy
[edit]He received many posthumous honours, since as early as the 1320s.[4] After his death, descendants of Muqali served the Great Khan of the Mongols, especially those of the Toluid lineage: prominent among these were Dorjeban and Dorǰi. A few of his descendants, such as Antong and Baiǰu, later became prominent officials in the Confucian fashion of the Yuan dynasty founded by Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan. Members of Muqali's Jalair tribe, as retainers of the Toluid Hulagu, participated in the conquest of Persia, then called Mollai, and later founded the Jalayirid Dynasty which ruled from Baghdad after the collapse of the Hulaguid Ilkhanate. Another descendant, Naγaču, survived the collapse of the Yuan and maintained his power under the Ming dynasty.[15]
Muqali is considered a superb leader, and one of the "very few men who could exert a real influence on Genghis Khan's decisions".[4] In seven years of campaigning in northern China, he had reduced the Jin dynasty's territories to only Henan Province. A statue of Muqali, together with Bo'orchu, flanks the statue of Genghis Khan in Sükhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Hope, Michael (2016). Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran. Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780191081071.
- ^ Frank McLynn, Genghis Khan (2015), 231.
- ^ Christopher P. Atwood, Pu'a's Boast and Doqolqu's Death: Historiography of a Hidden Scandal in the Mongol Conquest of the Jin.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n de Rachewiltz, Igor; Wang, May (1993). In the Service of the Khan Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200-1300). Harrassowitz. p. 7.
- ^ de Rachewiltz, I. (ed.) (1993) In the Service of the Khan, Harrassowitz Verlag, Weisbaden
- ^ a b Broadbridge, Anne F. (2018). Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 9781108636629.
- ^ "Muqali - Mongolian general". Britannica. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ a b Buell, Paul D. (2016). Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire. ABC-Clio. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9781610693400.
- ^ Denis C. Twitchett, Herbert Franke, John King Fairbank (1978). The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Cambridge University Press. p. 362. ISBN 9780521243315.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c McLynn, Frank (2015). Genghis Khan The Man Who Conquered the World. Random House. ISBN 9781446449295.
- ^ John Gillingham, John Lazenby; Peter Connolly, eds. (2016). The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare. Taylor & Francis. p. 222. ISBN 9781135936747.
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