Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
About the Book Series
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.
The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage and Religion in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia
1st Edition
By Bruno De Nicola
June 27, 2025
This book provides a novel approach to the history of medieval Anatolia by analysing political, religious and cultural developments in the region of Kastamonu during the reign of the Chobanid dynasty (c. 1211–1309). During the 13th century, the Chobanids consolidated a local dynasty in western ...
Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travelers' Tales, Sultans, and Scholars Since the Eighth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Bill Hickman, Gary Leiser
December 18, 2017
The twenty two essays collected in Turkish Language, Literature and History offer insights into Turkish culture in the widest sense. Written by leaders in their fields from North America, Europe and Turkey, these essays cover a broad range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Turkish language,...
The Rum Seljuqs: Evolution of a Dynasty
1st Edition
By Songul Mecit
November 08, 2016
Charting the expansion of the Rum Seljuqs from rulers of a small principality to a fully- fledged sultanate ruling over almost the whole of Anatolia, this book demonstrates how ideology, rather than military success, was crucial in this development. The Rum Seljuqs examines four distinct phases of ...
The History of the Seljuq State: A Translation with Commentary of the Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya
1st Edition
Edited
By Clifford Edmund Bosworth
March 07, 2014
The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book provides an accessible English translation and commentary on the text, making available to a new readership this significant work on the ...
The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks: Poetry as a Source for Iranian History
1st Edition
By G.E. Tetley
February 25, 2014
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) to the Ghaznavid and Seljuk rulers and dignitaries for whom they wrote. Dr Tetley investigates the reliability of the ...
The Great Seljuqs: A History
1st Edition
By Osman Aziz Basan
February 25, 2014
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, until its dissolution at the end of the 12th. Where the history of the Seljuqs is usually studied in the context of medieval Persian, Arabic or Islamic ...
Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation
1st Edition
By A.C.S. Peacock
December 12, 2013
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 origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important ...
Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Isfahan in the Saljuq Period
1st Edition
By David Durand-Guedy
March 28, 2013
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 rule. Through the example of the city of Isfahan, the book analyses the internal evolution of Iranian society in this period and the interaction of the ...
The Annals of the Saljuq Turks: Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn al-Athir
1st Edition
By D.S. Richards
June 01, 2010
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 of the greatest achievements of Muslim historiography for the range and comprehensiveness of the sources it assembled and for its narrative, covering the...
The History of the Seljuq Turks: The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri
1st Edition
Edited
By Edmund Bosworth
June 01, 2010
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 the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the ...
Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah
1st Edition
By A.C.S. Peacock
February 02, 2010
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 document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world....
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance
1st Edition
By George E. Lane
July 30, 2007
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 book opposes the way in which, for too long, the whole period of Mongol domination of Iran has been viewed from a negative standpoint. Though ...