title: STATE FORMATION IN CENTRAL AND WEST ASIA DURING THE 10th-13th CENTURIES
abstract: During the period beginning form the 10th century until the Mongol conquests, a series of states emerged in Central Asia and West Asia. These states were different from their predecessors, the Abbasid Caliphate and its successor states, as well as from their successors the Mongol Empire and the successor Khanates of the Mongol Empire in the same region in terms of their state formation processes and political structures. As a result, the state structures as well as the political players in the r
journal: Journal of Oriental Studies