[PDF.68he] Breaking of a Thousand Swords the: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.) (Suny Series, Medieval Middle East History)

Breaking of a Thousand Swords the: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.) (Suny Series, Medieval Middle East History)

[PDF.hf75] Breaking of a Thousand Swords the: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.) (Suny Series, Medieval Middle East History)

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 | #4019803 in Books |  State University of New York Press |  2000-12-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .69 x5.92 x9.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 324 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent and essential work.|By Abdulahad Ayub|Considering the vast wells of primary resources on the period, it is amazing that medieval Islamic history--apart, of course, from the rise of Islam and the Crusades--is so barely covered outside of specialist spheres. Samarra, an essentially military camp that grew into a powerful administrative capital at the heart of the ninth-| |This book fills a crucial gap in the study of the early Islamic caliphate. Gordon weaves together the first complete political history of the Samarra caliphate, and as such places the subject within the mainstream of academic study and within reach of the gene

The Breaking of a Thousand Swords provides a portrait of the Samarran Turks as members of a community with a specific and complex history in the early medieval Islamic world. It considers: the encounter of the Turks as rough, non-Muslim outsiders, with the sedentary, urbane world of Baghdad; the closely related encounter of the Turks with the Islamic tradition in its urban, scholarly guise; the settlement of the Turks, in Baghdad then in Samarra, through the use of land ...

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