Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock focuses on the period of Mongol domination in Anatolia in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries to offer new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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock focuses on the period of Mongol domination in Anatolia in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries to offer new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.

Product details

• Authors: A. C. S. Peacock, A. C. S. (University of St Andrews Peacock, Andrew A. C. S. Peacock, Peacock A. C. S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108713481
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71348-1
• No. of pages: 323
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, General and world history, Seljuqs; Mongols; Islamisation; conversion; manuscripts