Research Catalog

Title

Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history c. 1071-1330; translated from the French [manuscript] by J. Jones-Williams.

Author

Cahen, Claude.

Publication

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968.

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Details

Description

xxi, 458 pages illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Turquie pré-ottomane. English

Alternative Title

Turquie pré-ottomane.

Subject

• To 1453
• Seljuks > Turkey
• Seljuks
• Civilisation islamique
• Geschichte 1071-1330
• Turkey > History > To 1453
• Turkey
• Türkei
• Turquie > Histoire

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Translation of La Turquie pré-ottomane.
• Maps on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 427-450.

Contents

Introduction -- The Turks and their Islamization before the Seljukids -- Aspects of the Muslim East in the Eleventh Century -- Part 1. The Empire of the Great Seljukids -- The Rise of the Seljukid Empire -- The Seljukid Empire and the Turks -- Art and Letters in the Seljukid Period -- Part 2. Turkey In Asia Minor from the end of the eleventh century until 1243 -- The Sources -- Geography of Asia Minor -- Asia Minor on the Eve of the Arrival of the Turks -- The First Incursions before 1071 -- From Manzikert to the First Crusade (1071-1097) -- Asia Minor and the First Crusade (1097-1110) --Rise of the Danishmendids and the Byzantine Recovery (1110-41) -- Disruption of the Danishmendid Kingdom; the Seljukids between Byzantium and Nur Al-Din; the Results of Myriokephalon (1141-86) -- Eastern Asia Minor in the Twelfth Century -- The Crisis in Expansion (1186-1205) -- The Apogee of the Seljukid State (1205-47) -- Part 3. Society And Instututions In Turkey Before The Mongols -- The Birth of Turkey -- Economic Life -- The System of Land Tenure and Taxation -- The Towns -- The Non-Muslims -- Political Institutions -- Provincial Administration -- Cultural and Religious Life -- Muslim Art in Asia Minor before the Mongols -- Part 4. The Mongol Period -- The Establishment of the Mongol Protectorate (1243-61) -- The Government of Mu'in al-Din the Pervane and the Crisis of 1276-8) -- The Government of the Mongols -- The Formationof the Turcoman Principlities -- Ethnic Evolution -- Economic Evolution -- The Non-Muslims -- The Evolution of the System of Land-Tenure and Taxation -- The Evolution of the Towns -- Institutions -- Intellectual and Artistic Life of Asia Minor in the time of the Mongols -- The last century of Independence of Asia Minor -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 028335254X
• 9780283352546

LCCN

68122337

OCLC

• ocm00464917
• 464917
• SCSB-115830

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library