Сведения письменных источников о несторианах среди знати Ильханата в XIII веке
Written historical sources on the Nestorians among the Ilkhanate nobility in the 13th century

Summary/Abstract: This article examines valuable historical narratives, such as Armenian, Syrian, and Persian chronicles, about East Syriac Christianity’s followers (Nestorians) among the Turko-Mongol nobles of the Ilkhanate during the 13th century. Using information from the above sources, the names of noble Christians who lived in the Ilkhanate at that time are established, and their social status and political roles are outlined. The findings are likely to be reliable because, even though being of different ethnolinguistic and confessional origins, the analyzed chronicle passages mention the same men and women as Christians, including Nestorians. Furthermore, they show that these people came from tribal groups where Nestorianism was practiced, which also supports the assumption that the identified names belonged to Christian members of the community. The general conclusion is that representatives of the nomadic nobility of the Ilkhanate who professed Nestorianism maintained contacts with the South Caucasian Christian feudal lords.

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