Storm on Horseback: The Seljuk Warriors of Turkey

John Freely
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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

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AuthorJohn Freely
PublisherI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., United Kingdom
Year Published2008
Book Condition

FINE

Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

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