The Seljuk Empire Of Anatolia

Author : A. C. S. Peacock,Sara Nur Yildiz,Dr. Sara Nur Yildiz,A.C.S. Peacock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857733467

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The Seljuks of Anatolia by A. C. S. Peacock,Sara Nur Yildiz,Dr. Sara Nur Yildiz,A.C.S. Peacock Pdf

One of the most powerful dynasties to rule in the medieval Middle East, the Seljuks played a critical role in the development of Anatolia's multi-ethnic, multi-confessional identity. Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then – well before the arrival of the Ottomans – that a Turkish population became firmly established in these lands. But these developments are little understood, and the Seljuk dynasty remains little studied. Yet the Seljuks of Anatolia were one of the most influential dynasties of the thirteenth-century Middle East, controlling some of the major trade routes of the period, playing a crucial role in linking East and West of the medieval world. Here, Andrew Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz explore the history of Anatolia under Seljuk rule in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, examining developments in culture, politics, religion and society and shedding new light on the influence of the dynasty within Anatolia and throughout Western Asia. The Seljuks of Anatolia examines the crucial aspect of the Seljuk dynastic identity, and how this related to their royal households, and to the material and literary arts they sought to influence and promote through patronage. It also demonstrates how the Seljuks played a critical role in the development of Islamic culture in Anatolia, with strong influences from Iran, Syria and further afield. By taking this critical role into account, this book offers an analysis of the religious transformations that occurred during this period, from the Byzantine and Christian identities that prevailed amongst the Seljuks to the Sufis that held key positions in the Seljuk court. With its lively discussion of Seljuk identity, politics and culture, The Seljuks of Anatolia will be of great interest to researchers with interests in Byzantium as well as the material culture and society of the medieval Islamic world.

Author : Yildiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 074863729X

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The Seljuk Empire of Anatolia by Yildiz Pdf

Author : Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Seljuks
ISBN : UCAL:B4508888

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The Seljuks of Anatolia by Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Pdf

First published in 1943 in Turkish, intended to introduce a series of studies of the specific local sources for information on the Seljuks. The series itself was never written. The sections survey published and unpublished sources, chronicles and lost chronicles, diplomatic, and literary sources. An

Author : A. C. S Peacock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748698073

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Great Seljuk Empire by A. C. S Peacock Pdf

The first English language general history of the Great Seljuk Empire outlines its chronological history and will explores its religious and institutional history.

Author : Sara Nur Yildiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748637281

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The Seljuk Empire of Anatolia by Sara Nur Yildiz Pdf

Author : Sara Nur Yildiz
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9004174338

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Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia by Sara Nur Yildiz Pdf

Informed by the question of how Mongol rule transformed thirteenth-century Seljuk political culture, the volume explores the constantly evolving structures of both the Mongol Ilkhanate based in Iran and its client state, the Seljuk sultanate of Anatolia. Writing outside the nationalist paradigms of the mainstream scholarly literature, the author not only takes issue with the assumption of the marginality of Mongol rule in Anatolia; she also offers an alternative political narrative constructed according to a critical reading of the sources, especially of the underutilized unabridged sole manuscript of the main source for the period, Ibn Bibi's Persian history. Her reconstruction of an alternative narrative employs, as an as an explanatory device, the dynamics of factional court politics.

Author : Claude Cahen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317876250

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The Formation of Turkey by Claude Cahen Pdf

From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are developments in the three centuries in-between. What led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans? Translated from the original French, this classic work examines the history of the Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose influence spanned East and West.

Author : İbrahim Kafesoğlu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012421122

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A History of the Seljuks by İbrahim Kafesoğlu Pdf

For the first time in English, this book provides a comprehensive history of the entire Seljuk period of Middle Eastern history. The Seljuks entered the Middle East from Central Asia in the mid-11th century, establishing the first Turkish Empire in the region between China and Byzantium. This empire lasted until the mid-13th century. In his Introduction, Leiser synthesizes and evaluates current Western and Turkish research on Seljuk history, highlighting the scholarship of Seljuk specialist Ibrahim Kafesoglu. In the main body of the book, Leiser presents his translation of Kafesoglu's seven-chapter monograph covering all aspects of Seljuk history--political, social, and cultural--from the rise of the empire to its collapse. The final section deals with the tumultuous dispute between Kafesoglu and another Seljuk scholar, Osman Turan, who subsequently accused Kafesoglu of plagiarism and of poor scholarship.

Author : John Freely
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019873865

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Storm on Horseback by John Freely Pdf

Storm on Horseback is both a dramatic history and, uniquely, a traveller's guide to the extraordinary heritage of the Seljuks in Turkey. Who are the Turks and where did they come from? The successive empires that they created in a whirlwind of conquests from China to North Africa led one chronicler to call the waves of mounted Turkic warriors a ""storm on horseback."" This is the story of the Seljuk Turks of Anatolia who created the first Turkish state. The Seljuk period--when Anatolia, which had been for the most part Greek and Christian and became predominantly Turkic and Muslim--was one of the great cultural transformations in Middle Eastern history. Here, John Freely takes the reader from Istanbul throughout eastern Anatolia, describing the surpassingly beautiful monuments with which the Seljuks adorned their cities, as well as the music, dance, prose and poetry of the period. Though the Seljuks themselves did not survive as rulers, their cultural heritage lives on in the deepest roots of Turkish life, just as their magnificent monuments still adorn the landscape of Turkey.

Author : Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0791408191

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The Origins of the Ottoman Empire by Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Pdf

In The Origins of the Ottoman Empire, Köprülü criticized as unscientific the prevailing Western explanations of the origins of the Ottoman Empire. Leiser's translation from the Turkish reveals Köprülü's modern historiographic method, and his unique contribution in describing the nature of the relevant Muslim sources. Using these and other references, Köprülü gave the first broad comprehensive account--political, religious, social, and economic--of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlined the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.

Author : Songul Mecit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134508990

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The Rum Seljuqs by Songul Mecit Pdf

Charting the expansion of the Rum Seljuqs from rulers of a small principality to a fully- fledged sultanate ruling over almost the whole of Anatolia, this book demonstrates how ideology, rather than military success, was crucial in this development. The Rum Seljuqs examines four distinct phases of development, beginning with the rule of Sulaymān (473-478/1081-1086) and ending with the rule of Kay Khusraw II (634-644/ 1237-1246). Firstly, Songül Mecit examines the Great Seljuq ideology as a pre-cursor to the ideology of the Rum Seljuqs. Continuing to explore the foundation of the Seljuq principality in Nicaea, the book then examines the third phase and the period of decline for the Great Seljuqs. Finally, the book turns to the apogee of the Rum Seljuq state and questions whether these sultans can, at this stage, be considered truly Perso-Islamic rulers? Employing the few available Rum Seljuq primary sources in Arabic and Persian, and drawing on the evidence of coins and monumental inscriptions, this book will be of use to scholars and students of History and Middle East Studies.

Author : Ahmad M. Siddiqi,Tariq A. Siddiqi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1087887607

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Ottoman Empire: Devlet-i Aliye by Ahmad M. Siddiqi,Tariq A. Siddiqi Pdf

Part I of the book deals with 6 Centuries of Ottoman Empire's birth, growth, plateau and peak, stagnation and then the eventual downfall. The book begins with the early days of the Turkic tribes and the fall of the Seljuk Empire that ruled Anatolia. Then discusses the coming together of the tribes into a one cohesive entity and then the growth into a state and then into a multi-ethnic, multi-religious diverse empire. Along the way, the book discusses cultural aspects, interactions with the Persians, Greek, Russians, and later on the Western Powers. Part II discusses what happened after the fall of the last sultans of the Empire, World War I and the next 4 decades of the emergence of the modern country of Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Using high resolutions images, photographs, newly made detailed maps, the authors discuss this very important people, culture and country.

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1708698507

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The Battle of Manzikert by Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Byzantine Empire existed for over a thousand years, with a history spanning from the division of the Roman Empire in 395 until the Ottomsn conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It was formed from the previous Eastern Roman Empire, and during its long existence, the Byzantine inhabitants were very proud to call themselves Romans. However, many things changed during the long lifespan of the Byzantine Empire, starting with a Hellenization in the 6th century. The use of the Latin language diminished and Greek took its place, while the typical Roman culture gave way to a more Hellenistic one. The Hellenization of Byzantium was detrimental to the relationship with the Holy Roman Empire, and the Christian world from that point would be split in two. The subsequent strengthening of the Orthodox Church caused many civil wars and conflicts to arise during the centuries, which shattered and reshaped the territory time after time. By the end of the Byzantine Empire's existence, the old age had weakened both the state and church, making it an easy target for invading forces. The most notable invaders were the the Turkish-speaking Seljuks, led through a series of battles by Kutalmishouglu Suleiman, who supported different usurpers against the Byzantine emperor. The expansion of the Seljuks was so successful that when Suleiman died, he had put all of Bithynia under his control as well as several important harbor towns along the shores on the Asian side of Bosphorus. With that accomplishment, he had managed to separate the Byzantines living in Anatolia from their emperor in Constantinople. This immediately weakened the unity of the Byzantine Empire. When another invading Muslim army took control of what is now Syria, Israel, and Northern Africa, the dismembered Byzantine Empire lost significant portions of land, but that allowed it to grow into a smaller and stronger unity. It took a lot of power struggles and battles on many fronts for the empire to recapture some of the lands, but gradually the Byzantine Empire lost all influence in Anatolia. By the end of the 11th century, the Hellenic culture and Greek language were replaced by Islam and Turkish. Of all the conflicts that brought this state of affairs into being, perhaps none were as instrumental as the Battle of Manzikert, a fact noted by Turkey's current leader. In the Republic of Turkey, Victory Day is an important commemoration that remembers the Battle of Dumlupinar (August 26-30, 1922), when a Greek invasion of western Anatolia was effectively halted. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the founder of modern Turkey, rescued Anatolia (Asia Minor) from an attempt by Greece to conquer the Greek-speaking regions. This nationalistic conflict severed Turkey from its imperial Ottoman past and set it on a path as a free, independent, and secular nation. The memory of the battle still stirs up powerful emotions in the national psyche, not only in Turkey but amongst Armenians, Greeks, and other ethnicities who recall hundreds of years of oppression, particularly the Turkish-initiated genocides of the early 20th century. For all these nations, the Battle of Manzikert is no simple matter of historical record: its consequences reach down to the present day and impact their lives. For historians, the study of the battle is usually a more academic consideration. Traditionally, it has been regarded as marking the end of Christian hegemony in Asia Minor and the beginning of the rise of Islam as a rival to Christianity in the battle over the fate of Western Civilization. While contemporary historians do agree that Manzikert had momentous consequences, the extent to which it actually changed the course of history is a matter of lively debate.

Author : A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499361

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Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia by A. C. S. Peacock Pdf

A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Author : Alexander Daniel Beihammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351983853

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Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130 by Alexander Daniel Beihammer Pdf

The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European nations or the transformation of the Near East. The Turkish penetration of Byzantine Asia Minor is primarily conceived of as a conflict between empires, sedentary and nomadic groups, or religious and ethnic entities. This book proposes a new narrative, which begins with the waning influence of Constantinople and Cairo over large parts of Anatolia and the Byzantine-Muslim borderlands, as well as the failure of the nascent Seljuk sultanate to supplant them as a leading supra-regional force. In both Byzantine Anatolia and regions of the Muslim heartlands, local elites and regional powers came to the fore as holders of political authority and rivals in incessant power struggles. Turkish warrior groups quickly assumed a leading role in this process, not because of their raids and conquests, but because of their intrusion into pre-existing social networks. They exploited administrative tools and local resources and thus gained the acceptance of local rulers and their subjects. Nuclei of lordships came into being, which could evolve into larger territorial units. There was no Byzantine decline nor Turkish triumph but, rather, the driving force of change was the successful interaction between these two spheres.