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Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130 (Paperback)
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Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130 (Paperback)
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable
part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western
scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in
their discussions about the formation of European nations or the
transformation of the Near East. The Turkish penetration of
Byzantine Asia Minor is primarily conceived of as a conflict
between empires, sedentary and nomadic groups, or religious and
ethnic entities. This book proposes a new narrative, which begins
with the waning influence of Constantinople and Cairo over large
parts of Anatolia and the Byzantine-Muslim borderlands, as well as
the failure of the nascent Seljuk sultanate to supplant them as a
leading supra-regional force. In both Byzantine Anatolia and
regions of the Muslim heartlands, local elites and regional powers
came to the fore as holders of political authority and rivals in
incessant power struggles. Turkish warrior groups quickly assumed a
leading role in this process, not because of their raids and
conquests, but because of their intrusion into pre-existing social
networks. They exploited administrative tools and local resources
and thus gained the acceptance of local rulers and their subjects.
Nuclei of lordships came into being, which could evolve into larger
territorial units. There was no Byzantine decline nor Turkish
triumph but, rather, the driving force of change was the successful
interaction between these two spheres.
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