The Mongol World Is Neither East Nor West is a radical rethinking of world history through the lens of nomad thought. It reveals a fundamental distinction: while the East and West are products of sedentary thought, the Mongol world emerges from a different logic altogether - one of movement, rhizome, multiplicity, and creation. This book confronts the foundational assumptions of both Eastern and Western historical worldviews, showing that they are ultimately shaped by sedentary cultures who write history from within fixed norms, codes, states, borders, religions, and identities.
Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, it argues that nomads are the creators of history, while sedentary peoples merely write and categorize it within their own limited frameworks. The result? A distorted vision of global history that cannot recognize the true impact, agency, and vision of nomad civilizations - above all, the Mongols.
The sedentary worldview cannot comprehend the creative logic of the nomad, which does not seek to dominate but to connect, to traverse, to generate new worlds. This book asserts that the East and West are not universal truths, but regional outcomes of a deeper ontological split between movement and stasis, becoming and being, creation and categorization.
As the Earth faces planetary crises of meaning, division, and dignity, this book argues that the future belongs not to the continuation of old civilizations, but to the resurgence of nomad consciousness. Nomad thought is not just a relic of the past - it is the philosophy of the future, a path toward a planetary civilization that restores human dignity for all human beings.
