Turkish History and Culture in India

Richard Piran McClary, Ph.D. (2015), University of Edinburgh, is the lecturer of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. He has published monographs, articles and book chapters on ceramics and architecture in the wider Iranian world, including Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220 (EUP, 2017). A.C.S. Peacock, PhD (2003), University of Cambridge, is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, UK. Publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia (2019).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresA Note on Transliteration and DatesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionA.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClaryPart 1: Turkish Origins, Identity and History in India1 Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and ManzikertGeorge Malagaris2 Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative PerspectiveStephen Frederic Dale3 The “Advent of the Turks” and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth CenturyBlain Auer4 Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Maḥmūd GāwānMaya Petrovich5 The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muḥammad Zamān Mīrzā Did Not Become EmperorAli Anooshahr6 Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persian Chronicles of the Qutbshahi DynastyA.C.S. PeacockPart 2: Art, Material Culture, Literature and Transregional Connections7 Transregional Connections: The “Lion and Sun” Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and IndiaShailendra Bhandare8 When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and AnatoliaRichard Piran McClary9 The Jami Masjid Miḥrāb of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested SpaceSara Mondini10 “Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra”: Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal WorldsSuraiya Faroqhi11 Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical ImaginationPınar Emiralioğlu12 Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of TextsBenedek PériIndex

"This is a valuable and accessible volume."– R.W. Zens, Le Moyne College, in Choice Connect "[...] the authors have produced a valuable collection of scholarship that promises leads and new questions to inspire a broad range of readers, whether their interests be Turkish identity, the Islamicate world, Indian history, cultural syncretism, or any of the other myriad entryways opened here."– Teoman Kenn Küçük, University of Naples Federico II, in Insight Turkey 24.1 (2022). "This volume is an important contribution and paves the way for future studies in this field." – The Muslim World Book Review 42.3 (2022).