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<p>"The Breaking of a Thousand Swords provides a portrait of the Samarran Turks as members of a community with a specific and complex history in the early medieval Islamic world. It considers: the encounter of the Turks as rough, non-Muslim outsiders, with the sedentary, urbane world of Baghdad: the closely related encounter of the Turks with the Islamic tradition in its urban, scholarly guise; the settlement of the Turks, in Baghdad then in Samarra, through the use of land grants and appointments of office; the impact upon the affairs of the Turkish community of not only a military ranking but of a socio-political hierarchy as well; the construction by the Turkish elite of an elaborate network of patronage and support, both within urban Iraq and throughtout the provinces (Egypt in particular): and the emergence, and impact, of factionalism within the community."--BOOK JACKET.</p> <h3>Booknews</h3> <p>Gordon (history, Miami U., Ohio) considers the encounter of the Samarran Turks as rough, non-Muslim outsiders, with the sedentary, urbane world of Baghdad; their closely related encounter with the Islamic tradition in its urban, scholarly guise; their settlement first in Baghdad and t

Author

Matthew S. Gordon; Professor of Middle East and Islamic History Matthew S Gordon

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791447956

Subjects

History, Islam, Sociology