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Iqṭāʿ, suyūrghāl, tarkhan? Immunity and Decentred Power in Late Medieval Eurasia

Angus Russell

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient2026https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341671article
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Abstract This article brings into dialogue otherwise discrete historiographical questions around landholding and immunity in post-Mongol Eurasia. Building on recent scholarship that explores the evolution of iqṭāʿ, suyūrghāl , and tarkhan under the Chinggisids and their successors, I interrogate how far these models were extended into northern Eurasia; Rus princes, I argue, appropriated Mongol ideas of immunity, but (contra Ostrowski) there is no direct evidence that iqṭāʿ was the basis for Muscovite land grants of pomestʹe and kormlenie . Tracing these currents, I suggest, offers fruitful insights for situating multiple regions (the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Slavic world) in an institutional space fostered by immunity. I then finish by asking how immunity—as a function of decentred authority—might provide a distinct way to understand inscriptions of power across supposed cultural boundaries.

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@article{angus2026,
  title        = {{Iqṭāʿ, suyūrghāl, tarkhan? Immunity and Decentred Power in Late Medieval Eurasia}},
  author       = {Angus Russell},
  journal      = {Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341671},
}

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