The Medieval Turks: Collected Papers

by Carole Hillenbrand

Overview

This volume collects 24 papers on the medieval Turks by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It covers themes such as nomadism, shamanism, clan and social structure, the role of women, military expertise, engagement with Islamic orthodoxy and the daily interface between Turks and non-Turks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474485944
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	11/09/2021
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her ‘revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades’. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).

Table of Contents

Preface

1. The Career of Najm Al-Din Il-Ghazi
2. The Establishment of Artuqid Power in Diyar Bakr in the 12th Century
3. The History of the Jazira: A Short Introduction
4. Malazgird
5. Marwanids
6. Mayyafariqin
7. Mu’in Al-Din Parwana: the Servant of Two Masters?
8. Mu’in Al-Din Sulayman Parvana
9. 1092: A Murderous Year
10. Ibn Al-‘Adim’s Biography of the Seljuq Sultan, Alp Arslan
11. The Power Struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma‘Ilis of Alamut, 487–518/1094–1124: the Saljuq Perspective
12. Some Reflections on Seljuq Historiography
13. Women in the Seljuq Period
14. Ravandi, the Seljuq Court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian Cities
15. Artuqids
16. What’s in a Name? Tughtegin – ‘The Minister of the Antichrist’?
17. Aspects of the Seljuq Court
18. Nizam Al-Mulk: a Maverick Vizier?
19. The Life and Times of ‘Amid Al-Din Al-Kunduri
20. The Nizamiyya Madrasas
21. The Life and Times of the Artuqid Ruler Najm Al-Din Alpı (Ruled 548/1154–572/1176)
22. What is Special About Seljuq History?
23. ‘The View from Above’: Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070–1176
24. A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: Relations among the Kurds, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Persians and Turks under the Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990–1085

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