Great Seljuk Empire
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780748638260
Subjects: Islamic empire, history
Description: "The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state which dominated the Middle East and Central Asia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This book surveys that period, which was one of exceptional importance, witnessing profound demographic, religious, political and social changes in the Islamic Middle East. The Turkish invasions played a role in provoking the Crusades, led to the collapse of Byzantine power in Anatolia and brought about the beginnings of Turkish settlement in what is now Turkey and Iran, permanently altering their ethnic and linguistic composition."--