Title: | The Turkic peoples in medieval Arabic writings |
Author: | Yehoshua Frenkel |
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Editor: | |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey |
Place: | Abingdon and New York |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | IX, 143 |
ISBN: | 9780415747646, 9781315752952, 0415747643, 1315752956 |
File: | PDF, 3.06 MB |
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PART I
Overview 1
1 The Turkic peoples (atrāk) and the Islamic Caliphate 1
2 Slaves and soldiers 1
3 The Turkic tribes in the steppes 3
4 The image of the Turks in ‘Abbāsid-period writings 3
5 Gog and Magog 6
6 Literary ethnicity (shu’ūbiyya) 9
7 The Eurasian steppes in the ‘Abbāsid Geographical Library 11
8 The Iranian Intermezzo 12
9 Aḍud al-Dawla 13
10 The coming of the Eurasian barbarians 14
11 The Saljūqs 16
12 Ibn Ḥassūl: the structure and subject matter of his epistle 18
13 The new image of the Turks 21
14 From al-Makīn ibn al-‘Amīd to Mamlūk historiography 24
PART II
Translated sources 39
1 The Eurasian steppes before the Saljūqs 39
a) Ibn Khurradādhbih: The Central Asian frontiers (ninth century) 39
b) Ibn Faqīh al-Hamadhānī: On the Turks and their lands 41
c) Abū Dulaf: Pseudo-travel 54
2 Eurasian Turks and the legitimation of the Saljūqs 60
a) Ibn al-Dawādārī: A Turkic creation myth 60
b) al-‘Aynī: Genealogy and tribal division 66
c) Ibn Ḥassūl: The superiority of the Turks over other regiments 68
3 The traditional medieval historical paradigm 83
a) al-Makīn Jirjis Ibn al-‘Amīd: The beginning of the Saljūq dynasty 83
b) Ibn al-Dawādārī: The history of the Turks 92
Bibliography 114
Index 135