Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia : the Turkish presence in the Islamic world /Ismail K Poonawala

By: Poonawala,Ismail KContributor(s): Poonawala,Ismail KMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: xxviii, 385 pages 24cmISBN: 9780198092209Subject(s): History | History of Asia | Turks -- Asia -- History -- Congresses | Turks -- India -- History -- Congresses | Turks -- India -- History -- Congresses | Islam -- Middle East -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 950.0899 POO
Contents:
'Eternal stones' : historical memory and notions of history among the early Turkic peoples / Peter B. Golden -- The Waqf as an instrument of cultural transformation in Seljuq Anatolia / Gary Leiser -- The appearance of the Turks in the Islamic world / Clifford Edmund Bosworth -- Brick versus stone : Seljuq architecture in Iran and Anatolia / Robert Hillenbrand -- The Nizamiyya madrasas / Carole Hillenbrand -- Trans-regional contacts and relationships : Turks, Mongols, and the Delhi Sultanate in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The great Mughals : relationships, emotions, and monuments / Francis Robinson -- Turkish language and literature in medieval and early modem India / Benedek Péri -- Piri Reis as a Renaissance Ottoman Turk / Svat Soucek -- Evliya Çelebi's expeditions on the Nile / Robert Dankoff -- Revisiting Safavid origins in light of some contemporary documents / Ali Anooshahr.
Summary: This is an outstanding work of collective scholarship from some of the best scholars on Islamic history. It aims to highlight the political and cultural history of the Turks not only within the context of the Indian Subcontinent where they laid the foundation of one of the biggest empires in the world through the Mughals, but also within the context of Central and West Asia
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'Eternal stones' : historical memory and notions of history among the early Turkic peoples / Peter B. Golden --
The Waqf as an instrument of cultural transformation in Seljuq Anatolia / Gary Leiser --
The appearance of the Turks in the Islamic world / Clifford Edmund Bosworth --
Brick versus stone : Seljuq architecture in Iran and Anatolia / Robert Hillenbrand --
The Nizamiyya madrasas / Carole Hillenbrand --
Trans-regional contacts and relationships : Turks, Mongols, and the Delhi Sultanate in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar --
The great Mughals : relationships, emotions, and monuments / Francis Robinson --
Turkish language and literature in medieval and early modem India / Benedek Péri --
Piri Reis as a Renaissance Ottoman Turk / Svat Soucek --
Evliya Çelebi's expeditions on the Nile / Robert Dankoff --
Revisiting Safavid origins in light of some contemporary documents / Ali Anooshahr.

This is an outstanding work of collective scholarship from some of the best scholars on Islamic history. It aims to highlight the political and cultural history of the Turks not only within the context of the Indian Subcontinent where they laid the foundation of one of the biggest empires in the world through the Mughals, but also within the context of Central and West Asia

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