Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia : the Turkish presence in the Islamic world / edited by Ismail K. Poonawala.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017. Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 385 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmISBN:

9780198092209
0198092202

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950.089 23 POO

Contents:

'Eternal stones' : historical memory and notions of history among the early Turkic peoples / Peter B. Golden -- The Waqf as an instrument of cultural transformation in Seljuq Anatolia / Gary Leiser -- The appearance of the Turks in the Islamic world / Clifford Edmund Bosworth -- Brick versus stone : Seljuq architecture in Iran and Anatolia / Robert Hillenbrand -- The Nizamiyya madrasas / Carole Hillenbrand -- Trans-regional contacts and relationships : Turks, Mongols, and the Delhi Sultanate in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The great Mughals : relationships, emotions, and monuments / Francis Robinson -- Turkish language and literature in medieval and early modem India / Benedek Péri -- Piri Reis as a Renaissance Ottoman Turk / Svat Soucek -- Evliya Çelebi's expeditions on the Nile / Robert Dankoff -- Revisiting Safavid origins in light of some contemporary documents / Ali Anooshahr.

Summary: This is an outstanding work of collective scholarship from some of the best scholars on Islamic history. It aims to highlight the political and cultural history of the Turks not only within the context of the Indian Subcontinent where they laid the foundation of one of the biggest empires in the world through the Mughals, but also within the context of Central and West Asia.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library History & Geography	Non-fiction	950.089 POO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		30092

"The papers collected in this volume were delivered on the occasion of the nineteenth Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award and Conference in Islamic Studies at the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, on 18-19 May 2010"--Preface.

'Eternal stones' : historical memory and notions of history among the early Turkic peoples / Peter B. Golden --
The Waqf as an instrument of cultural transformation in Seljuq Anatolia / Gary Leiser --
The appearance of the Turks in the Islamic world / Clifford Edmund Bosworth --
Brick versus stone : Seljuq architecture in Iran and Anatolia / Robert Hillenbrand --
The Nizamiyya madrasas / Carole Hillenbrand --
Trans-regional contacts and relationships : Turks, Mongols, and the Delhi Sultanate in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar --
The great Mughals : relationships, emotions, and monuments / Francis Robinson --
Turkish language and literature in medieval and early modem India / Benedek Péri --
Piri Reis as a Renaissance Ottoman Turk / Svat Soucek --
Evliya Çelebi's expeditions on the Nile / Robert Dankoff --

Revisiting Safavid origins in light of some contemporary documents / Ali Anooshahr.

This is an outstanding work of collective scholarship from some of the best scholars on Islamic history. It aims to highlight the political and cultural history of the Turks not only within the context of the Indian Subcontinent where they laid the foundation of one of the biggest empires in the world through the Mughals, but also within the context of Central and West Asia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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