num_pages: 204
description: 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.
language: English
title: The History of the Seljuq Turks: The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri
titlecomplete: The History of the Seljuq Turks: The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey)
genres: History
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Routledge