Yasir Suleiman and Adel Al-Abdul Jader
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637386
- eISBN:
- 9780748653218
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637386.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand’s achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. It gathers original research from a range of international ...
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The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand’s achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. It gathers original research from a range of international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA, whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. Contributors include Julia Bray, Edmund Bosworth, Farhad Daftary, Gerhard Endress, Gary Leiser, Remke Kruk, Charles Melville, A. H. Morton, Ian Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart and Yasir Suleiman.Less
The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand’s achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. It gathers original research from a range of international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA, whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. Contributors include Julia Bray, Edmund Bosworth, Farhad Daftary, Gerhard Endress, Gary Leiser, Remke Kruk, Charles Melville, A. H. Morton, Ian Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart and Yasir Suleiman.
Carole Hillenbrand
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625727
- eISBN:
- 9780748671359
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625727.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Although the Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium, their history is still insufficiently known both in the West and in the Arabic and Persian-speaking lands. This book focuses on Turkey's key ...
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Although the Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium, their history is still insufficiently known both in the West and in the Arabic and Persian-speaking lands. This book focuses on Turkey's key foundational myth, the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, in which the Byzantine army was defeated by the Seljuq Turks under Sultan Alp Arslan, and the Byzantine emperor, Romanus IV Diogenes, was taken prisoner and then honourably released by the sultan. This battle destroyed the hold of the Christian Byzantine empire on eastern Anatolia and began the Islamisation of what is now called Turkey. This book translates, often for the first time, practically all of the surviving medieval Arabic and Persian accounts of the battle, and analyses their contents. The book also examines these texts as literary works and as vehicles of religious ideology, and looks at the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe from the crusading period to more recent times. The final part of the book highlights the importance of Manzikert for modern Turks as a myth of the founding of their nation. It shows how the historic memory of Manzikert has remained vibrant as a symbol of the arrival of the Turks in Turkey since its creation as a modern secular state by Atatürk in 1923.Less
Although the Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium, their history is still insufficiently known both in the West and in the Arabic and Persian-speaking lands. This book focuses on Turkey's key foundational myth, the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, in which the Byzantine army was defeated by the Seljuq Turks under Sultan Alp Arslan, and the Byzantine emperor, Romanus IV Diogenes, was taken prisoner and then honourably released by the sultan. This battle destroyed the hold of the Christian Byzantine empire on eastern Anatolia and began the Islamisation of what is now called Turkey. This book translates, often for the first time, practically all of the surviving medieval Arabic and Persian accounts of the battle, and analyses their contents. The book also examines these texts as literary works and as vehicles of religious ideology, and looks at the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe from the crusading period to more recent times. The final part of the book highlights the importance of Manzikert for modern Turks as a myth of the founding of their nation. It shows how the historic memory of Manzikert has remained vibrant as a symbol of the arrival of the Turks in Turkey since its creation as a modern secular state by Atatürk in 1923.
