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Storm on Horseback is both a dramatic history and, uniquely, a travellers 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.

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Author

Freely, John.

Publisher

London ; New York: I.B. Tauris ; New York: Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845117030

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Travel, History

Rating

3.44 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14