Research Catalog

Title

Turkish myth and Muslim symbol : the battle of Manzikert / Carole Hillenbrand.

Author

Hillenbrand, Carole.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

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Description

x, 288 p., [16] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

This volume contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources which deal with the battle are provided in the book.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• 1071
• Nationalbewusstsein
• Geschichtsschreibung
• Islam
• Manzikert, Battle of, Turkey, 1071
• Türkei
• Mantzikert > Schlacht

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references ([262]-279) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The twelfth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert -- The thirteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert -- The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert -- Writing the battle -- The ongoing Muslim-Christian confrontation : the victorious contribution of the Turks -- The heritage of Manzikert : the myth of national identity.

ISBN

• 9780748625727 (hbk.)
• 0748625720 (hbk.)
• 0748625739 (pbk.)
• 9780748625734 (pbk.)

OCLC

165409055

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library