TY - BOOK AU - Bosworth,Clifford Edmund TI - The Turks in the early Islamic world T2 - Formation of the classical Islamic world SN - 0860787192 (hbk. : alk. paper) AV - DS26 .T895 2007 U1 - 958/.004943 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Aldershot [England], Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Turkic peoples KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The Steppe region in world history; Kaare Gronbech --; 2; A geographical introduction to the history of Central Asia; K. de B. Codrington --; 3; Tribal names and titles amongst the Altaic peoples; Omeljan Pritsak --; 4; The oldest mentions of the Turks in Arabic literature; Tadeusz Kowalski --; 5; The Turks in the Shah-Nama; Tadeusz Kowalski --; 6; Khazar Turkic Ghulams in Caliphal service; Peter B. Golden --; 7; Al-Xwarazmi on the peoples of Central Asia; C. E. Bosworth and Gerard Clauson --; 8; Turks in the Middle East before the Saljuqs; Richard N. Frye and Aydin M. Sayili --; 9; The Turks in the Islamic lands up to the mid-11th century; C. E. Bosworth --; 10; Barbarian incursions : the coming of the Turks into the Islamic world; C. E. Bosworth --; 11; Notes on the Risala of Ibn-Fadlan; R. N. Frye and R. P. Blake --; 12; Mu'tasim and the Turks; Osman S. A. Ismail --; 13; Aspects of the early history of the Central Asian Guard Corps in Islam; C. I. Beckwith --; 14; The founding of a new capital : Samarra'; Osman S. A. Ismail --; 15; The Malik-Nama and the history of Seljuqid origins; Claude Cohen --; 16; The Turkish tribes of Western Asia during the Seljuqid period; Claude Cahen ER -