Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, Ca. 1040-1130

ISBN-13: 9780367884482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 460 str.

Alexander Daniel Beihammer

Opis

This book proposes a new interpretation of the transformation from Byzantine to Muslim-Turkish Anatolia. With the waning influence of Constantinople and Cairo, in Anatolia and the Muslim heartlands, local elites and regional powers came to the fore as holders of political authority and rivals in endless power struggles. Turkish warrior groups qu

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List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Conquests, Modern Nations, and Lost Fatherlands

Sources, Images, Perceptions

Part I First EncounterS in Byzantium’s Eastern Marches, ca. 1040-1071

1. The Eastern Provinces, Turkish Migrations, and the Seljuk Imperial Project

2. Byzantine-Seljuk Diplomacy and the First Turkish Footholds

3. Emperor Romanos IV and Sultan Alp Arslān, 1068-1071

Part II Decay of Imperial Authority and Regionalization of Power, 1071-1096

4. Sulaymān b. Qutlumush and the First Turkish Lordships in Syria

5. Revolts and Byzantine-Turkish Coalitions in Asia Minor, 1071-1081

6. Seljuk Rule between Centralization and Disintegration, 1086-1098

7. Turkish and Byzantine-Armenian Lordships in Asia Minor

Part III The Crusades and the Crystallization of Muslim Anatolia, 1096-ca.1130

8. Seljuk Reactions to the First Crusade

9. New Contact and Conflict Zones

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Alexander Daniel Beihammer received his PhD from the University of Vienna and is a member of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. From 2001 to 2015 he taught at the University of Cyprus and is currently Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on Byzantine official documents, diplomacy, and cross-cultural communication between Byzantium and the Muslim world, as well as on Byzantine-Latin contacts and mutual perception in the crusader states and the Eastern Mediterranean.