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06/09/2026

What privileges did religious figures receive in the Golden Horde?

Muslim, Christian and Buddhist clergy could receive protection, gifts and exemptions from taxes and military service. In return, they prayed for the khan and his dynasty. This support helped fund mosques, madrasas, churches, monasteries and even hammams.

Historian Marie Favereau explains how the Golden Horde managed its many faiths.

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03/09/2026

What made women of the Golden Horde visible from far across the steppe?

A towering boqta headdress, often covered in silk and decorated with pearls and jewellery. Travellers were fascinated by the sight of these women riding on horseback.

Historian Marie Favereau explains how clothing reflected womenā€™s mobility and status.

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01/09/2026

Did the Golden Horde help make Columbusā€™s voyages imaginable?

Historian Marie Favereau, author of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, argues that the Mongol era transformed how Europeans viewed the East. Trade, travel and cultural exchange increasingly accompanied older ideas of crusade and conquest.

Marco Poloā€™s accounts of the Mongol world later fascinated Christopher Columbus, who owned and annotated a copy of his book. The Golden Horde did not ā€œcauseā€ Columbusā€™s voyage, but it belonged to the wider Mongol world that expanded Europeā€™s knowledge of distant lands and possibilities.

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30/08/2026

Did Amir Timur destroy the Northern Silk Road?

Around 1400, Timurā€™s wars against Tokhtamysh devastated cities along the Syr Darya and weakened the northern trade routes connecting China with the Aral Sea, Crimea, Sarai and Kazan. According to historian Nick Fielding, Timur redirected much of this commerce south through Samarkand, Bukhara and Iran toward the Mediterranean with catastrophic consequences for the cities of the Northern Silk Road, which never fully recovered.

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29/08/2026

In the early 13th century, Otyrar was one of the great cities of the Silk Roadā€”while London was still a relatively small medieval town.

Historian and author Nick Fielding explores how this powerful Central Asian city became a major centre of trade, scholarship and urban lifeā€”and why its importance has been largely forgotten.

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27/08/2026

In 1736, John Castle set out from Orenburg for the court of Abulkhair Khan, not as an officially appointed envoy, but as an ambitious artist who volunteered for the mission.

Against the backdrop of the Dzungar threat and an uncertain alliance with Russia, Abulkhair wanted to know whether Russian support could truly be relied upon. Castleā€™s diary and drawings became a rare eyewitness record of the khanā€™s court and life in the eighteenth-century Kazakh steppe.

Historian and author Nick Fielding tells the story of this extraordinary journey.

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23/08/2026

Women in the Golden Horde were far from confined to domestic life.

Elite women could own assets, receive ambassadors, employ their own merchants, and conduct trade across vast distances. Their influence was so significant that anyone seeking an audience with the Khan was expected to bring gifts for the women of his court too.

Historian Marie Favereau explains the political and economic power women held in the Golden Horde.

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20/08/2026

How much power did the Khan of the Golden Horde actually have?

According to historian Marie Favereau, author of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, ruling was a constant process of negotiation. Nomadic leaders, political assemblies and influential women all had a say, and even succession to the throne was far from automatic.

Watch our exclusive interview with Marie Favereau to discover how power really worked in the Golden Horde. Link in bio

18/08/2026

Historian Marie Favereau, author of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, explains how the Golden Horde became a place of refuge and protection for Muslim scholars and communities at a moment of profound crisis in the Islamic world.

Watch our exclusive interview with Marie Favereau on Qalam Global. Link in Bio

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17/08/2026

Unlike many great conquerors, Chinggis Khan did not inherit a sophisticated state apparatus. He had to build it. And he didnā€™t do it alone. He drew on Turkic military traditions, adopted the Uyghur script, and recruited Muslim administrators from Central Asia.

According to Jack Weatherford, one of Chinggis Khanā€™s greatest talents was simple: finding talented people and knowing how to use them.

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