01976nam a2200277 a 4500001001500000005001700015008004100032020003500073020003000108040000600138050000900144082002300153100001800176245007200194260003500266300002100301520110100322650001701423650001201440650001101452650001101463856008201474942001201556999001701568952011301585ASIN184511703420170105102927.0131212s2008    xxu                 eng d  a1845117034 (hardcover)c$44.00  a9781845117030 (hardcover)  a004aDS2704a956.1014bFRE 20081 aFreely, John.10aStorm on horseback :bthe seljuk warriors of turkey /cJohn Freely.  a[S.l.] :bI. B. Tauris,c2008.  a304 p. ;c24 cm.  aStorm 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. 0aCivilization 0aSeljuks 0aTravel 0aTurkey403Amazon.comuhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845117034/chopaconline-20  2ddccBK  c15863d15863  001040708NFICaCIPSbCIPScGENd2013-10-01l0o956.1014 FRE 2008pCIPS0001485r2013-12-12w2013-12-12yBK