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The History of the Seljuq State
A Translation with Commentary of the Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book provides an accessible English translation and commentary on the text, making available to a new readership this significant work on the...
Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
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The History of the Seljuq Turks
The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the...
Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge