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Pre-Ottoman Turkey: A General Survey of the Material and Spiritual Culture and History, C.1071-1330

Professor Cahen's study of the history of Medieval Turkey in Asia Minor and the foundation of modern Turkey is the first serious work to discuss the period on its own merits and not merely as the forerunner of the Ottoman Empire. He aims to give a provisory mise au point of the state of research, including his own, to draw the attention of a learned public to the interest in medieval Turkish history, and to discuss for the scholar some problems, particularly methodological problems, which seem of importance to further research. The main stress is on the problems which have been particularly studied by the author, and seem to him of special importance for further research; political history, of course which is unavoidable,; social, economic and institutional problems. Cultural history is treated at some length, and it is hoped that Turkish art will atract the eye of the reader through the illustrations in the book. The work is devided into four sections; 1. a general picture of the great Seljukid Empire, outside Asia Minor; 2 the political history of the Seljukids in Asia Minor; 3. a study of society and institutions in Turkey before the Mongol period; and 4 a special section to consider the changes in Turkish history brought about by the Mongol invasion, the disintegration of the resulting empire, and the growth of those principalities of a new kind.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 484
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781597400275
  • Genres
  • history, medieval
  • Release date
  • 2001