Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

Andrew A. C. S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he is also Director of the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies. He is the author of The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and co-editor of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (2013) and Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World (2015).

• Introduction; Part I. Religion, Politics and Society: 1. The formation of Islamic Anatolia: crises of legitimacy and the struggle against unbelief; 2. Sufism and political power; 3. Sufism in society: Futuwwa in Seljuq and Mongol Anatolia; Part II. Literature and Religious Change: 4. The emergence of literary Turkish; 5. Vernacular religious literature: tales of conversion, eschatology and unbelief; 6. Apocalyptic thought and the political elite; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'This rich and meticulously researched monograph at last treats Mongol Anatolia in the 13th–14th centuries as a vibrant and multi-faceted society in its own right. The particular originality of the book lies in its analysis of the literary texts being written and read in this period, many previously unknown and still in manuscript, which throw light on the processes of Islamization.' Charles Melville, University of Cambridge