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The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East
Author(s): A.C.S. Peacock (Author), Sara Nur Yildiz (Author)
- Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848858876
- ISBN-13: 9781848858879
Book Description
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. This volume examines Seljuk culture and history by looking at developments both at court and in society at large and sheds new light on Seljuk political culture and dynastic ideology,the engagement of politics with religion and Christian-Muslim interaction.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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This impressive scholarly volume opens up several new lines of research into the turbulent and little-known history of Seljuk Anatolia, marked by religious and linguistic pluralism and fragmented political control. The contributors achieve an impressive coherence in their different approaches to the ideological,religious and literary character of the period,drawing on a range of what are usually described as ancillary sources such as inscriptions, evidence of architectural patronage, correspondence, hagiographies and didactic literature to supplement the meagre narrative chronicles of the time. Altogether, this is a valuable collection of studies that will quickly take its place among the growing body of new work on the Seljuks as a whole and the Seljuks of Rum in particular. –Professor Charles Melville, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
About the Author
A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews,and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His publications include Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy (2007),Early Seljuq History (2010)and, as editor,The Frontiers of the Ottoman World (2009),in addition to numerous articles on medieval Islamic history, especially with reference to Anatolia.
Sara Nur Yildiz is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews,affiliated with the Orient-Institut, Istanbul. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2006 with a thesis entitled Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-century Seljuk Anatolia:the Politics of Conquest and History Writing,1243-1282, and has taught at the universities of Manchester and Istanbul Bilgi.
