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24 A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: Relations among the Kurds, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Persians and Turks under the Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990–1085

  • Carole Hillenbrand
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The Medieval Turks
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Figures vii
  4. Acknowledgements ix
  5. Preface x
  6. 1 The Career of Najm al-Din İl-Ghazi 1
  7. 2 The Establishment of Artuqid Power in Diyar Bakr in the Twelfth Century 50
  8. 3 The History of the Jazira, 1100–1250: A Short Introduction 76
  9. 4 Malazgird 89
  10. 5 Marwanids 94
  11. 6 Mayyafariqin 98
  12. 7 Mu‘in al-Din Parwana: The Servant of Two Masters? 108
  13. 8 Mu‘in al-Din Sulayman Parwana 117
  14. 9 1092: A Murderous Year 121
  15. 10 Ibn al-‘Adim’s Biography of the Seljuq Sultan, Alp Arslan 136
  16. 11 The Power Struggle between the Seljuqs and the Isma‘ilis of Alamut, 487–518/1094–1124: The Seljuq Perspective 145
  17. 12 Some Reflections on Seljuq Historiography 163
  18. 13 Women in the Seljuq Period 182
  19. 14 Ravandi, the Seljuq Court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian Cities 202
  20. 15 Artuqids 215
  21. 16 What’s in a Name? Tughtegin – ‘The Minister of the Antichrist’? 220
  22. 17 Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs 234
  23. 18 Nizam al-Mulk: A Maverick Vizier? 254
  24. 19 The Life And Times of ‘Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri 270
  25. 20 The Nizamiyya Madrasas 288
  26. 21 The Life and Times of the Artuqid Ruler Najm al-Din Alpı (r. 548/1154–572/1176) 302
  27. 22 What Is Special about Seljuq History? 321
  28. 23 ‘The View from Above’: Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070–1176 336
  29. 24 A Cosmopolitan Frontier State: Relations among the Kurds, Arabs, Byzantines, Armenians, Persians and Turks under the Marwanids of Diyar Bakr, 990–1085 361
  30. Original Sources of the Items in this Volume 376
  31. Index 379
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