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On the other hand, it has been argued strongly that the Merkit raid is not historical but a folkloric trope, a perennial motif in epic poetry about the theft of women, whether of Europa by Zeus, Helen by Paris or the Princess Sita’s seizure in the Hindu epic Ramayana. The raid is one of the prime exhibits in H. Okada, ‘The Secret History of the Mongols, a Pseudo-historical Novel, Journal of Asian and African Studies 5 (1972) pp. 61–67 (at р. 63). But the theory is unconvincing if only because it makes Chagatai’s later violent hostility to Jochi on the grounds of his illegitimacy impossible to fathom.

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Togan, Flexibility p. 73; Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 250, 401.

214

Mostaert, Sur quelques passages p. 32.

215

Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 279–281; Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 421.

216

SHC pp. 38–39.

217

SHO pp. 91–92; SHR p. 41; Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 428.

218

SHC pp. 43–47. As Ratchnevsky tersely comments: ‘Rashid’s version is implausible’ (Genghis Khan p.

35).

219

SHC pp. 39–42.

220

RT i p. 107.

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RT i pp. 107–108.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 36.

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SHO pp. 85–87; SHR рр. 35–36.

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SHO pp. 87–90; SHR pp. 37–39; Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 417.

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Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 435.

226

SHC pp. 52–53; SHO pp. 95–96; SHR pp. 44–45; SHW p. 262.

227

V V Bartold, ‘Chingis-Khan,’ in Encyclopaedia of Islam (1st ed.

, repr. 1968 v pp. 615–628 (at p. 617)); Vladimirtsov, Le regime social pp. 107–108; Vladimirtsov, Genghis Khan p. 130.

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Grousset, Conqueror of the World p. 67.

229

SHO pp. 96–97; SHR pp. 44–46.

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Vladimirtsov, Le regime social pp. 105–107.

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As Rachewiltz sagely remarks, ‘If neither Temujin nor his wife could understand Jamuga’s poetic riddle, what hope have we, who are so far removed from that culture, to understand what was the real meaning of those words?’ (Rachewiltz, Commentary p.

442).

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Owen Lattimore, ‘Chingis Khan and the Mongol Conquests,’ Scientific American 209 (1963) pp. 55–68 (at p. 62); Lattimore, ‘Honor and Loyalty: the case of Temujin and Jamukha,’ in Clark & Draghi, Aspects pp. 127–138 (at p. 133).

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Grousset, Empire pp. 201–202; Gumilev, Imaginary Kingdom pp. 143–145.