Book Series in Middle East Studies
Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
New & Published Titles:
The Great Seljuqs
A History
This book provides a broad history of the Seljuq Turks from their origins and early conquests in the 10th century, through the rise of empire,…
read moreJune 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55539-5 (Routledge)
The History of the Seljuq Turks
The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri
Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in… read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58312-1 (Routledge)
The Annals of the Saljuq Turks
Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn al-Athir
Ibn al-Athir, who died in the 13th century, is one of the most important historians of Islam. His major chronicle, the Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is one… read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58313-8 (Routledge)
Early Seljuq History
A New Interpretation
This book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their…
read moreMarch 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54853-3 (Routledge)
Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy
Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah
The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural… read moreFebruary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58311-4 (Routledge)
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Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers
A History of Isfahan in the Saljuq Period
The Saljuq period of the eleventh and twelfth centuries saw the arrival in Iran of Türkmen nomads from Central Asia and the beginning of Turkish…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45710-1 (Routledge)
The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks
Poetry as a Source for Iranian History
This new view on aspects of the Ghaznavid and Seljuk dynasties concentrates on the relationship of the panegyric poets Farrukhi Sistani (c.995-1032) and Mu'izzi (c.1045-1127)…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43119-4 (Routledge)
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran
A Persian Renaissance
An account of the re-emergence of Persia as a world player and the reassertion of its cultural, political and spiritual links with Turkic Lands, this… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44454-5 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
This series publishes important studies dealing with the history of Iran and Turkey in the period 1000-1700 AD. This period is significant because it heralds the advent of large numbers of nomadic Turks from Central Asia into the Islamic world. Their influence was felt particularly strongly in Iran and Turkey, territories which they permanently transformed.
The series presents translations of medieval Arabic and Persian texts which chronicle the history of the medieval Turks and Persians, and also publishes scholarly monographs which handle themes of medieval Turkish and Iranian history such as historiography, nomadisation and folk Islam.
Forthcoming Titles:
The History of the Seljuq State: A Translation with Commentary of the Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya
Edited by Clifford Edmund Bosworth
To be published October 19th 2010