Who are the Turks and where did they come from? The successive empires that they created in a whirlwind of conquests from China to North Africa led one chronicler to call the waves of mounted Turkic warriors a ‘storm on horseback.’ This is the story of the Seljuk Turks of Anatolia who created the first Turkish state. The Seljuk period – when Anatolia, which had been for the most part Greek and Christian and became predominantly Turkic and Muslim – was one of the great cultural transformations in Middle Eastern history. Storm on Horseback” is both a dramatic history and