The age of the Seljuqs / edited by Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzig, Edmund, 1958- editor.

Stewart, Sarah (Sarah Rosemary Anne), editor.

Series:

Idea of Iran ; v. 6.

The idea of Iran ; volume VI

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seljuks--Iran--History.

Seljuks.

History.

Iran--History--640-1256.

Iran.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan.

Contained In:

(MP) Idea of Iran v. VI

Place of Publication:

London : New York : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2015.

Summary:

"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 Qarakha-nids 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; architecture, art and culture; and politics and poetry.Istvan Vasary looks back in Chapter 1 to the early history of the Turks in the wider Iranian world, discussing the debates about the dating and distribution of the early Turkish presence in Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Two Patterns of Acculturation to Islam: The Qarakhanids versus the Ghaznavids and Seljuqs / István Vásáry

Nizam al-Mulk: A Maverick Vizier? / Carole Hillenbrand

Ismaili-Seljuq Relations: Conflict and Stalemate / Farhad Daftary

What does the History of Isfahan tell us about Iranian Society during the Seljuq Period? / David Durand-Guédy

Baghdad: A View from the Edge on the Seljuq Empire / Vanessa Van Renterghem

Two Mirrors for Princes Fabricated at the Seljuq Court: Nizam al-Mulk's Siyar al-mulũk and al-Ghazali's Nasīhat al-mulũk / Alexey Khismatulin

Stylistic Continuities in Classical Persian Poetry: Reflections on Manuchehri from Dāmghān and Amir Mo'ezzi / Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Architecture and Politics: The North and South Dome Chambers of the Isfahan Jāmi' / Robert Hillenbrand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781780769479

1780769474

OCLC:

897773618