1st Edition

The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings

By Yehoshua Frenkel Copyright 2015
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Translating a collection of the most important descriptions of the Turks found in medieval Arabic texts into English, this book aims at delineating the coming of the Turkic people in the eleventh century, their military successes in Iran and Iraq, and the emergence of the sultanate. The book introduces the reader to the history of the Islamic Caliphate and the Turkic people. This introduction... Read more

Prologue Introduction 1 Ibn Khurrdadhbih 2 Ibn al-Faqih 3 Abu Dulaf 4 Ibn al-Dawadari 5 el-Ayni 6 Ibn Hassul 7 al-Makin Jirjis Ibn al-Amid 8 Ibn al-Dawadari

Biography

Yehoshua Frenkel is a Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa and is currently engaged in a research project entitled The Environmental History of Mamlūk Bilād al-Shām.