ABSTRACT
The Mongol protectorate of Asia Minor, followed by direct rule, stimulated fairly profound changes alike in the landed and fiscal systems. Too many investigators have imprudently confused the issue by considering the institutions of the Mongol period and those of the time of Seljukid independence as being one and the same. The sultans distributed state lands as estates in order to win or keep partisans in their internal quarrels. Kilic Arslan IV in particular appears to have been prodigal in largesse of this kind, which, as has been seen, was not entirely new, but had never been practised on so large a scale. Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazwīnī, writing his Geography in 1339, gives the amount of taxes due or levied for a fairly large number of provincial capitals of the Ilkhanate, and the Turkish scholar Zeki Veledi Togan has collated the manuscripts in order to improve the reading of the figures.
