Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Songül Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• Part I. Politics: 1. The Origins of the Seljuqs, C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester; 2. Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs, Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; 3. 'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans, D. G. Tor, University of Notre Dame; 4. Kingship and ideology under the Rum Seljuqs, Songul Mecit, University of Edinburgh; 5. Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History, A. C. S. Peacock, British Institute at Ankara; Part II. Society: 6. Arslan Arghun – Nomadic Revival?, Jurgen Paul, University of Halle; 7. Controlling and Developing Baghdad: Caliphs, Sultans and the Balance of Power in the Abbasid Capital (Mid-5th/11th to Late 6th/12th Centuries), Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris; 8. The Seljuqs and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad, Daphna Ephrat, The Open University of Israel; 9. Changes in the Office of Hisba under the Seljuqs, Christian Lange, Utrecht University; 10. An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandis of Isfahan, David Durand-Guedy, University of Halle; Part III. Culture: 11. Shi'i Jurisprudence during the Seljuq Period: Rebellion and Public order in an Illegitimate State, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter; 12. In Defence of Sunnism: Al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs, Massimo Campanini, L'universita degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale; 13. Arabic and Persian Intertextuality in the Seljuq Period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a Case Study, Vahid Behmardi, Lebanese American University; 14. City Building in Seljuq Rum, Scott Redford, Georgetown University; 15. The Seljuq Munuments of Turkmenistan, Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; Index

The work constitutes a serious contribution to Seljuq research, for which the symposium organisers, contributors and editors deserve our thanks.

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Songül Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• Part I. Politics: 1. The Origins of the Seljuqs, C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester; 2. Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs, Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; 3. 'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans, D. G. Tor, University of Notre Dame; 4. Kingship and ideology under the Rum Seljuqs, Songul Mecit, University of Edinburgh; 5. Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History, A. C. S. Peacock, British Institute at Ankara; Part II. Society: 6. Arslan Arghun – Nomadic Revival?, Jurgen Paul, University of Halle; 7. Controlling and Developing Baghdad: Caliphs, Sultans and the Balance of Power in the Abbasid Capital (Mid-5th/11th to Late 6th/12th Centuries), Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris; 8. The Seljuqs and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad, Daphna Ephrat, The Open University of Israel; 9. Changes in the Office of Hisba under the Seljuqs, Christian Lange, Utrecht University; 10. An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandis of Isfahan, David Durand-Guedy, University of Halle; Part III. Culture: 11. Shi'i Jurisprudence during the Seljuq Period: Rebellion and Public order in an Illegitimate State, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter; 12. In Defence of Sunnism: Al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs, Massimo Campanini, L'universita degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale; 13. Arabic and Persian Intertextuality in the Seljuq Period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a Case Study, Vahid Behmardi, Lebanese American University; 14. City Building in Seljuq Rum, Scott Redford, Georgetown University; 15. The Seljuq Munuments of Turkmenistan, Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; Index

The work constitutes a serious contribution to Seljuq research, for which the symposium organisers, contributors and editors deserve our thanks.

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Songül Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• Part I. Politics: 1. The Origins of the Seljuqs, C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester; 2. Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs, Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; 3. 'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans, D. G. Tor, University of Notre Dame; 4. Kingship and ideology under the Rum Seljuqs, Songul Mecit, University of Edinburgh; 5. Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History, A. C. S. Peacock, British Institute at Ankara; Part II. Society: 6. Arslan Arghun – Nomadic Revival?, Jurgen Paul, University of Halle; 7. Controlling and Developing Baghdad: Caliphs, Sultans and the Balance of Power in the Abbasid Capital (Mid-5th/11th to Late 6th/12th Centuries), Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris; 8. The Seljuqs and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad, Daphna Ephrat, The Open University of Israel; 9. Changes in the Office of Hisba under the Seljuqs, Christian Lange, Utrecht University; 10. An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandis of Isfahan, David Durand-Guedy, University of Halle; Part III. Culture: 11. Shi'i Jurisprudence during the Seljuq Period: Rebellion and Public order in an Illegitimate State, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter; 12. In Defence of Sunnism: Al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs, Massimo Campanini, L'universita degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale; 13. Arabic and Persian Intertextuality in the Seljuq Period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a Case Study, Vahid Behmardi, Lebanese American University; 14. City Building in Seljuq Rum, Scott Redford, Georgetown University; 15. The Seljuq Munuments of Turkmenistan, Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; Index

The work constitutes a serious contribution to Seljuq research, for which the symposium organisers, contributors and editors deserve our thanks.