Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- Comment on transliteration and conventions used in the book
- Dedication
- Part 1 Medieval Muslim interpretations of the battle of Manzikert
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The twelfth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- 3 The thirteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- 4 The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- 5 Writing the battle
- Part 2 The legacy of the battle
- Conclusion
- Appendix A The account of the battle of Manzikert by Michael Attaleiates, translated by Ruth Macrides
- Appendix B Translations of some other medieval Christian accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- Appendix C Other medieval Muslim accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
3 - The thirteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
from Part 1 - Medieval Muslim interpretations of the battle of Manzikert
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- Comment on transliteration and conventions used in the book
- Dedication
- Part 1 Medieval Muslim interpretations of the battle of Manzikert
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The twelfth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- 3 The thirteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- 4 The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- 5 Writing the battle
- Part 2 The legacy of the battle
- Conclusion
- Appendix A The account of the battle of Manzikert by Michael Attaleiates, translated by Ruth Macrides
- Appendix B Translations of some other medieval Christian accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- Appendix C Other medieval Muslim accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
On days of audience Alp Arslan was extremely awe-inspiring and splendid. From the top button of his hat to the end of his moustaches it was two yards. Ambassadors from the various regions were extremely afraid of him, and awe of him left an impression on them.
The account of al-Husayni (d. after 622/1225) in Akhbār al-dawla al-saljūqiyya
Introduction to the text
This is a very important source for the history of the Seljuqs. Unfortunately, the authorship of it is not clearly established, nor indeed is its title. In the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, the author is named here as al-Husayni. Research on the text is not helped by the fact that Iqbal's edition of it is often problematic and he gives many dubious readings of this difficult text. The work is a dynastic history of the Seljuqs written in Arabic in the extreme east of the Islamic world in a milieu where it would have been more usual for a historical chronicle to have been composed in Persian. The work has been rather neglected by scholars, despite its clear value as a repository of information gleaned from lost historical chronicles from the eleventh century and thus lacking in the surviving sources.
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- Turkish Myth and Muslim SymbolThe Battle of Manzikert, pp. 52 - 88Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007