The Age of the Seljuqs

From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the Eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and transported Persian culture to Anatolia. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the new Turkic-Persian symbiosis that had earlier emerged under the Samanids, Ghaznavids and Qarakha-nids...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780769474
• ISBN13: 9781780769479
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"