The Medieval Turks: Collected Essays

ISBN-13: 9781474485944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 416 str.

Carole Hillenbrand

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The career of Najm al-Din Il-Ghazi; 2. The establishment of Artuqid power in Diyar Bakr in the twelfth century; 3. The history of the Jazira: a short introduction; 4. Malazgird; 5. Marwanids; 6. Mayyafariqin; 7. Mu’in al-Din Parwana: the servant of two masters?; 8. Mu’in al-Din Sulayman Parvana; 9. 1092: a murderous year; 10. Ibn al-‘Adim’s biography of the Seljuq sultan, Alp Arslan; 11. The power struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma‘ilis of Alamut, 487¬¬-518/1094-¬1124: the Saljuq perspective; 12. Some reflections on Seljuq historiography; 13. Women in the Seljuq Period; 14. Ravandi, the Seljuq court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian cities; 15. Artuqids; 16. What’s in a name? Tughtegin – ‘the Minister of the Antichrist’?; 17. Aspects of the Seljuq Court; 18. Nizam al-Mulk: A Maverick Vizier?; 19. The life and times of ‘Amid al-Din al-Kunduri; 20. The Nizamiyya madrasas; 21. The life and times of the Artuqid ruler Najm al-Din Alp? (ruled 548/1154-572/1176); 22. What is special about Seljuq history?; 23. ‘The view from above’: Muslim perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the period 1070-1176; 24. A cosmopolitan frontier state: relations among the Kurds, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Persians and Turks under the Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990-1085; Index.