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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God : How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom by Jack Weatherford (2016, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100735221154
ISBN-139780735221154
eBay Product ID (ePID)219738480
Product Key Features
Book TitleGenghis Khan and the Quest for God : How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicAsia / Central Asia, Religious, Asia / General, Comparative Religion, Religion, Politics & State, Historical, Political Freedom
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJack Weatherford
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-039793
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Weatherford tells the gripping story of how a man rose from nothing to control almost all the known world. That the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, the ultimate self-made man, was also the founder of religious liberty is only one of many surprises in this well-researched and well-written book. Through meticulous scholarship, Jack Weatherford has found tangible echoes of the Founding Fathers' promotion of complete religious tolerance in the thinking of Genghis Khan." -- Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon "Genghis Khan is best remembered by Voltaire's description: a 'cruel tyrant King of Kings', who butchered and brutalised his way across the medieval world. But in this elegant, original and scrupulously researched book, Jack Weatherford makes the case for a Mongolian warlord as first mover behind the First Amendment freedoms millions of Americans enjoy today. Bold, compelling and tautly argued, this is another fine study of a subject Weatherford knows better than anyone else writing today." -- Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets "The conquests of the Mongols were arguably the most important event of the last millennium in Eurasia. Yet Genghis Khan has remained an opaque and enigmatic figure, a symbol of cruelty and little else. Jack Weatherford has peeled back the curtain and revealed a complex man and thinker in this path-breaking work of rousing history and scholarship." -- Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography and Eastward to Tartary "Jack Weatherford returns to Genghis Khan and offers a startling conclusion: that the Western tradition of secularism in fact was enhanced by the religious tolerance of the great Mongolian warlord. An engaging, well-researched--and counter-intuitive--intellectual odyssey. -- Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution/Stanford University and author of Carnage and Culture "Weatherford's study of 13th-century Mongolia reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known, and draws parallels to religious extremism today." --Publisher's Weekly, Top 10 History Titles Praise for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World "Reads like the Iliad . . . . Part travelogue, part epic narrative." --The Washington Post "Weatherford is a fantastic storyteller. . . . [His] portrait of Khan is drawn with sufficiently self-complicating depth. . . . Weatherford's account gives a generous view of the Mongol conqueror at his best and worst." --Minneapolis Star Tribune, Praise for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World "Reads like the Iliad . . . . Part travelogue, part epic narrative." --The Washington Post "Weatherford is a fantastic storyteller. . . . [His] portrait of Khan is drawn with sufficiently self-complicating depth. . . . Weatherford's account gives a generous view of the Mongol conqueror at his best and worst." --Minneapolis Star Tribune, Advanced praise for Genghis Khan and the Quest for God "Weatherford's study of 13th-century Mongolia reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known, and draws parallels to religious extremism today." --Publisher's Weekly, Top 10 History Titles Praise for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World "Reads like the Iliad . . . . Part travelogue, part epic narrative." --The Washington Post "Weatherford is a fantastic storyteller. . . . [His] portrait of Khan is drawn with sufficiently self-complicating depth. . . . Weatherford's account gives a generous view of the Mongol conqueror at his best and worst." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
Dewey Decimal323.44/209
SynopsisA landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling 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 bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World radically transformed our understanding of the Mongols and their legacy, Jack Weatherford has spent eighteen 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.
LC Classification NumberBL640.W43 2016
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- Jul 20, 2021
Informative, unique analysis of Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan and the quest for God, is a new perspective on the life of Genghis Khan. Even though Genghis Khan was a brutal military general he was also a wise and rational thinker. Genghis Khan promoted and enabled religious tolerance throughout his wide empire. He incorporated the ideas of many different religions. Genghis Khan used religious ethical principles in his administration and lawmaking. He also had scribes encode the spoken Mongolian language into written form. As Genghis Khan grew older he became a student of many religious principles and this was his quest for understanding the concept of God. A seeking of the over arching unity of "Father Sky and Mother Earth". I did not know that some of the Founding Fathers of the US government, like Thomas Jefferson, had read a lot of books about Genghis Khan. Khan's religious tolerance belief was centered on the key pivot point that "Religious Freedom" was an individual right more than an institutional right. This informed Thomas Jefferson's ideas about religious tolerance.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 30, 2017
Flight of fantasy
I'd say 80% of the writing is based on the writer's imagination rather than any historical proof. I wish he would have stuck to the facts, and not make up conversations and dreams that can neither be proven of not. I prefer factual histories, more than made up ones as you're writing the book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
