Early Seljuk History: A New Interpretation

This work, which deals with the early periods of the Seljuk Turks, who emerged from the Western Eurasian steppes and conquered Iran, Iraq and Anatolia and founded one of the greatest empires of the medieval Islamic world, is one of the rare studies published in a Western language regarding this important page of Turkish and Islamic history. It offers a new perspective on its origin.

Perhaps the most important, but least understood, period of the Seljuks is their transformation into an Islamic empire, more than one tribe, living a nomadic life in the Western Eurasian steppes. Concentrating on this foundation period, Andrew CS Peacock reveals that the nomadic and steppe pasts of the Seljuks played a much more important role in this crucial process, by considering sources that have not been used much before (Georgian, Armenian, Arabic, Persian, etc.). . The Establishment of the Seljuk State, which also examines how the peoples living in the settled order in the Middle East were affected by these invasions and the first Turkish settlements that caused the demographic structure of the region to change permanently, sheds light on the history of the Middle East from a different perspective in this context.