Carole Hillenbrand

Gebundenes Buch

The Medieval Turks

Collected Papers

Beschreibung

This volume collects 24 papers on the medieval Turks by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It covers themes such as nomadism, shamanism, clan and social structure, the role of women, military expertise, engagement with Islamic orthodoxy and the daily interface between Turks and non-Turks.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 818g
• ISBN-13: 9781474485944
• ISBN-10: 1474485944
• Artikelnr.: 62212962