Medieval Turks

Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her ‘revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades’. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).

• PrefaceThe Career of Najm Al-Din Il-GhaziThe Establishment of Artuqid Power in Diyar Bakr in the 12th CenturyThe History of the Jazira: A Short IntroductionMalazgirdMarwanidsMayyafariqinMu’in Al-Din Parwana: the Servant of Two Masters?Mu’in Al-Din Sulayman Parvana 1092: A Murderous YearIbn Al-‘Adim’s Biography of the Seljuq Sultan, Alp ArslanThe Power Struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma‘Ilis of Alamut, 487–518/1094–1124: the Saljuq PerspectiveSome Reflections on Seljuq HistoriographyWomen in the Seljuq Period Ravandi, the Seljuq Court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian CitiesArtuqidsWhat’s in a Name? Tughtegin – ‘The Minister of the Antichrist’?Aspects of the Seljuq CourtNizam Al-Mulk: a Maverick Vizier?The Life and Times of ‘Amid Al-Din Al-KunduriThe Nizamiyya MadrasasThe Life and Times of the Artuqid Ruler Najm Al-Din Alpı (Ruled 548/1154–572/1176)What is Special About Seljuq History?‘The View from Above’: Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070–1176A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: Relations among the Kurds, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Persians and Turks under the Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990–1085Original Sources and Page Numbers of the Items in this VolumeIndex

The present volume collects twenty-four essays and encyclopaedia entries on aspects of medieval Turkish history published between 1981 and 2023. It thus complements two other volumes of Carole Hillenbrand’s collected papers, [...] Classical Islam and Islam and the Crusades, which are testimony to her towering reputation as one of the leading historians of the medieval Islamic world.