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Storm on Horseback: The Seljuk Warriors of Turkey
Storm on Horseback is both a dramatic history and, uniquely, a traveller's guide to the extraordinary heritage of the Seljuks in Turkey.
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. Here, John Freely takes the reader from Istanbul throughout eastern Anatolia, describing the surpassingly beautiful monuments with which the Seljuks adorned their cities, as well as the music, dance, prose and poetry of the period. Though the Seljuks themselves did not survive as rulers, their cultural heritage lives on in the deepest roots of Turkish life, just as their magnificent monuments still adorn the landscape of Turkey.
Book Details
- Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2008
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.30in - 1.00in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9781845117030
- Categories: • Middle East - General
About the Author
John Freely (1926 - 2017) was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen, serving during the last two years of World War II. He had a PhD in physics from New York University and did post-doctoral studies in the history of science at Oxford. He was for many years professor of physics at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, where he taught physics and the history of science. He wrote more than forty books, including Light from the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped Shape the Western World (I.B.Tauris, 2010), The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles, The Cyclades, The Ionian Islands (all I.B.Tauris), Crete, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice and the bestselling Strolling through Istanbul (all Tauris Parke Paperbacks).
Praise for this book
"A timely and well-written work of popular history, Freely's book provides a crucial piece in the history of a very exciting time, telling a fabulous story which is not accessible elsewhere. One would never know how terrifically difficult a task he has accomplished. He makes it look easy and does so with great style and charm, seeing the big picture and writing with a novelist's eye for the telling detail. Storm on Horseback will make an important contribution; a public familiar with the Seljuks will be less likely to stand for politicians' distortions of Christian-Muslim history."--Victoria Holbrook, author of The Unreadable Shores of Love
"Storm on Horseback is lucid and well-researched. It will be an indispensable companion for any traveller eager to be in touch with the glory that was Seljukid Anatolia."--Professor Hakan Erdem, Sabanci University
'''Storm on Horseback' is both a dramatic history and, uniquely, a traveller's guide to the extraordinary heritage of the Seljuks in Turkey.''--Abrar
""Freely is a lover of all things Turkish . . . This is an original and useful format and it's refreshing to have a guide written by a former commando rather than the usual backpackers."" --Independent on Sunday (UK)