Andrew A. C. S. Peacock

Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock focuses on the period of Mongol domination in Anatolia in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries to offer new understanding of the process of Islamisation in Anatolia and integrate its study with that of the broader Islamic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781108713481
• ISBN-10: 1108713483
• Artikelnr.: 60038745

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.