Genghis Khan and the Quest for God - Jack Weatherford
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A landmark biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known.
Throughout history the world’s greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world’s greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. He needed religion. And so, unlike the Christian, Taoist and Muslim conquerors who came before him, he gave his subjects freedom of religion. Genghis lived in the 13th century, but he struggled with many of the same problems we face today: How should one balance religious freedom with the need to reign in fanatics? Can one compel rival religions - driven by deep seated hatred - to live together in peace?
A celebrated anthropologist whose best-selling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World radically transformed our understanding of the Mongols and their legacy, Jack Weatherford has spent18 years exploring areas of Mongolia closed until the fall of the Soviet Union and researching The Secret History of the Mongols, an astonishing document written in code that was only recently discovered. He pored through archives and found groundbreaking evidence of Genghis’s influence on the founding fathers and his essential impact on Thomas Jefferson. Genghis Khan and the Quest for God is a masterpiece of erudition and insight, his most personal and resonant work.
©2016 Jack Weatherford (P)2016 Penguin Audio
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
May 7th, 2023
Boy, this is very good stuff you are sharing. Thank you’d
May 7th, 2023
Genghis correspondence with the pope at the time kind of put the lie to any religious sentiment within the man. The question of whether different religious communities can coexist is demonstrably answerable by the evidence of our eyes as much as any evidence to he contrary. Different cultures? Well that’s a question about how civil your society is.
May 8th, 2023
There was no such correspondence from Genghis Khan. That would be internet “history” again.
Thx, gbhernan.
May 8th, 2023
My mistake, Chingis Khan and mongol rulers in general over a period of decades. That’s on the historical record champ. Hoping for a God of the gaps point there Caesar? I don’t have perfect recall of everything I’ve ever read, shocking I know. Still pissy that not everyone is buying the Spengler “socialism” as somehow left wing? O’ sysiphus, don’t be an insufferable pedant just because you’re bored.
May 9th, 2023
What ARE you toading on about? All Mongolians are the same? All foreigners, I suppose - that’s your genius Brexit insight.
“a God of the gaps point” - ???
“everything I’ve ever read” - …yeah.
“Spengler “socialism”” - ???
WTF.
May 9th, 2023
Actual historical accuracy, as in getting the major historical figure remotely correct (who also happens to be the subject of the bk & upon whom the thesis turns) = “insufferable pedant.” Yeah, right.
“Genghis corresp w pope at the time put lie to any relig sentiment within man. Question of whether diff relig communities can coexist is demonstrably answer by evid of eyes as much as evid to he contrary.” - So, the entire point as expressed is absolutely wrong. But = “insufferable pedant.” Brilliant.
February 15th, 2025
Thanks
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