1st Edition

The History of the Seljuq Turks The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri

Edited By Edmund Bosworth Copyright 2001
    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the patterns of land utilisation in the northern tier of the Middle East.

    General Editor's Preface, Editor's Preface and Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Map I The western Iranian world, Map 2 The eastern Iranian world, Introduction, Translation, Notes, Bibliography, Indexes

    Biography

    Edmund Bosworth

    'Luther's translation will be welcome to both students of Rashid al-Din and students of medieval Persian history.' - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society