Parution : Carole Hillenbrand (ed.), The Medieval Turks. Collected Essays, Edinburgh University Press, 2021
The Medieval Turks
Collected Essays
Collects 24 papers on the medieval Turks by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history
Traces the evolution of scholarship in the area over several decades
Gathers many papers located in out-of-print or hard-to-find works
Includes a preface that describes Professor Hillenbrand’s fascination with medieval Turkey, and an index of names, places and terms
This volume explores the impact of the Turks on the medieval Islamic world. 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.
The Medieval Turks is publishing alongside two further volumes of Carole Hillenbrand’s collected papers: Classical Islam and Islam and the Crusades.
Contents:
Preface
- The Career of Najm Al-Din Il-Ghazi
- The Establishment of Artuqid Power in Diyar Bakr in the 12th Century
- The History of the Jazira: A Short Introduction
- Malazgird
- Marwanids
- Mayyafariqin
- Mu’in Al-Din Parwana: the Servant of Two Masters?
- Mu’in Al-Din Sulayman Parvana
- 1092: A Murderous Year
- Ibn Al-‘Adim’s Biography of the Seljuq Sultan, Alp Arslan
- The Power Struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma‘Ilis of Alamut, 487–518/1094–1124: the Saljuq Perspective
- Some Reflections on Seljuq Historiography
- Women in the Seljuq Period
- Ravandi, the Seljuq Court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian Cities
- Artuqids
- What’s in a Name? Tughtegin – ‘The Minister of the Antichrist’?
- Aspects of the Seljuq Court
- Nizam Al-Mulk: a Maverick Vizier?
- The Life and Times of ‘Amid Al-Din Al-Kunduri
- The Nizamiyya Madrasas
- The Life and Times of the Artuqid Ruler Najm Al-Din Alpı (Ruled 548/1154–572/1176)
- What is Special About Seljuq History?
- ‘The View from Above’: Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070–1176
- A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: Relations among the Kurds, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Persians and Turks under the Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990–1085
Original Sources and Page Numbers of the Items in this Volume
Index
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).
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