Assoc. Prof. Yoichi Isahaya, PhD

Research topic at the GWZO:
»Crisis of the 14th century in a global perspective«

Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre, Sapporo, Japan

Environmental History in the Period of the Mongol Empire

Central Eurasia

• Yoichi Isahaya, “‘Converting’ Knowledge, Culture and
  Themselves: Mongol Imperial Rule in Thirteenth- and
  Fourteenth-Century Eurasia,” Inner Asia 26/2 (2024):
  279-301.
• Yoichi Isahaya, „Marāgha Ceased to Function: The Ṭūsī
  Family’s Intellectual Network and Īl-Khānid Political
  Itinerance,“ Crossroads 22/1-2 (2023): 5-25.
• Yoichi Isahaya, „Islamicate Astral Sciences in Eastern
  Eurasia During the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty (1271–
  1368),“ in Sonja Brentjes (ed.), Routledge Handbook on
  the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the
  2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries (London: Routledge,
  2022), 688-695.
• Yoichi Isahaya, “Geometrizing Chinese Astronomy? The
  View from a Diagram in the Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq by al-
  Nīsābūrī (d. ca. 1330),” in Bill Mak & Eric Huntington
  (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural
  and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Leiden: Brill, 2022),
  139-169.
• Yoichi Isahaya, “Fu Mengzhi: “The Sage of Cathay” in
  Mongol Iran and Astral Sciences along the Silk Roads,”
  in Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack & Francesca Fiaschetti
  (eds.), Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals,
  Merchants, and Intellectuals (Berkeley: University of
  California Press, 2020), 238-254.