The Age of the Seljuqs

ISBN-13: 9781780769479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 200 str.

Edmund Herzig; Sarah Stewart

Opis

From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and transported Persian culture to Anatolia. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the new Turkic-Persian symbiosis that had earlier emerged under the Samanids, Ghaznavids and Qara-Khanids came to fruition in a period that, under the enlightened rule of the Seljuq dynasty, combined imperial grandeur with remarkable artistic achievement. This latest volume in The Idea of Iran series focuses on a system of government based on Turkic 'men of the sword' and Persian 'men of the pen' that the Seljuqs (famous foes of the Crusader Frankish knights) consolidated in a form that endured for centuries. The book further explores key topics relating to the innovative Seljuq era, including: conflicted Sunni-Shi'a relations between the Sunni Seljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; art, culture and ceramics; and poetry and architecture.

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What does the history of Isfahan tell us new about the Iranian society during the Saljuq period? Dr Durand-Guédy, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Baghdad: a view from the edge on the Saljuq empire Dr Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco,Paris) & Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo, Beirut) Ismaili-Saljuq Relations: conflict and stalemate Dr Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies & Encyclopaedia  Islamica Images into Words: metaphors as hallmarks of poetic individuality Dr Ali-Asghar Seyed-Ghorab, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Leiden University) The Mirrors for Princes fabricated at the Saljuqi court: the Siyasat-name (Siyar al-muluk) by Nizam al-Mulk and the two-partite Nasihat al-muluk by al-Ghazali Dr Alexey A Khismatulin, The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg Structures of power and influence in Seljuq Iran: the case of Nizam al-Mulk Professor Carole Hillenbrand FBA OBE, Professor Emerita of Islamic History, University of Edinburgh The Friday Mosque of Isfahan: the crowning achievement of Saljuq architecture? Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art , University of Edinburgh “Saljuq” Ceramics? Professor Oliver Watson, I M Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford