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

Kapitel in diesem Buch

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