A. C. S. Peacock

The Great Seljuk Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a history and a thematic analysis of the empire's institutions and aspects of life in the Seljuk world This book examines the political, administrative, military, economic and social organisation of the Great Seljuk Empire using a wide variety of historical and literary sources. It features images, maps, charts and family trees.

Produktdetails

• The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780748638260
• ISBN-10: 0748638261
• Artikelnr.: 41545302

Autorenporträt

A.C.S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Early Seljuq History (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of box texts
Illustrations and maps
Abbreviations
A note on transliteration, conventions and geographical terminology
Acknowledgements Introduction
Chapter 1. The Rise of the Seljuk Empire: from the Eurasian Steppe to the Gates of Cairo, c. 965-1092
Chapter 2. Crisis, Consolidation and Collapse: the Great Seljuk Empire and the Sultanate of Iraq, 1092-1194
Chapter 3. Sovereignty, Legitimacy and the Contest with the Caliphate
Chapter 4. The Dargah: Courts and Court Life
Chapter 5. The Kuttab: Bureaucrats and Administration
Chapter 6. The 'Askar: The Seljuk military
Chapter 7. Religion and the Seljuk Empire
Chapter 8. The Economic and Social Organisation of the Seljuk Empire
Conclusion: The Seljuk Legacy
Appendices: Regnal Dates of Seljuk Sultans
'Abbasid Caliphs, Khwarazmshahs and principal Atabegs
Genealogical chart of the Seljuk Sultans
Chronological Outline
Glossary
Bibliography.