The Seljuks 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 : 47,7 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 : Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : 55,8 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 : Yildiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 074863729X

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The Seljuk Empire of Anatolia by Yildiz Pdf

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Tauris Parke
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755654239

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Storm on Horseback by John Freely Pdf

Author : Ahmet Ertuğ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015024708060

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The Seljuks by Ahmet Ertuğ Pdf

Author : Sara Nur Yildiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748637281

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The Seljuk Empire of Anatolia by Sara Nur Yildiz Pdf

Author : Alexander Daniel Beihammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

Author : Patricia Blessing
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474411301

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Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 by Patricia Blessing Pdf

Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.

Author : John Freely
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Scott Redford,Timothy Paul Beach,Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110242398

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Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia by Scott Redford,Timothy Paul Beach,Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach Pdf

"This study, focusing on the Rum Seljuk dynasty in thirteenth-century Anatolia, combines local history, geography, art history, and archaeology to examine instances of an only partially understood garden tradition in one corner of the medieval Mediterranean. Gardens, and their architecture, have been neglected, not only because of the paucity of remains, the architecture they inspired was not monumental and relied strongly on a sense of place, and a sensitivity to the landscape. This book attempts to recover a measure of that sense and that landscape, as well as the activities that endowed them with meaning for those that enjoyed them."--Publisher's website

Author : A.C.S. Peacock,Bruno De Nicola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317112686

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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia by A.C.S. Peacock,Bruno De Nicola Pdf

Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research has offered insights into individual aspects of Christian-Muslim relations, but no overview has appeared. Moreover, very few scholars of Islamic studies have examined the problem, meaning evidence in Arabic, Persian and Turkish has been somewhat neglected at the expense of Christian sources, and too little attention has been given to material culture. The essays in this volume examine the interaction between Christianity and Islam in medieval Anatolia through three distinct angles, opening with a substantial introduction by the editors to explain both the research background and the historical problem, making the work accessible to scholars from other fields. The first group of essays examines the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, comparing their experiences in several of the major Islamic states of Anatolia between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, especially the Seljuks and the Ottomans. The second set of essays examines encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life. They highlight the ways in which some traditions were shared across confessional divides, suggesting the existence of a common artistic and hence cultural vocabulary. The final section focusses on the process of Islamisation, above all as seen from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence with special attention to the role of Sufism.

Author : Nicolas Trépanier
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292759299

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Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia by Nicolas Trépanier Pdf

"This book investigates daily life in Anatolia during the fourteenth century, the dawn of the Ottoman era, through the many ways in which humans experience food. This includes meals and the social interactions that they entail, of course, but also the production activities of peasants and gardeners, the exchanges of food between the common folk, merchants and the state, and the religious landscape that unfolds around food-related beliefs and practices. Using an array of sources ranging from hagiographies to archaeology and from Sufi poetry to endowment deeds, the resulting study presents a broad picture of a society's daily life and worldviews through the multiplicity of its interactions with food, in a style that both scholars and non-specialists will enjoy"--

Author : Sara Nur Yildiz
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.