Mongols, Tatars, and Turks in the Persianate World - (Studies in Persian Cultural History) by Ferenc Csirkes & Benedek Péri (Hardcover)

About the Book

Spanning Central Asian and Iranian history from medieval to early modern times, the groundbreaking essays in the book written by prominent scholars discuss political history, archaeology, historiography, historical linguistics, as well as cultural, literary and religious history.

Book Synopsis

Celebrating the scholarly legacy of István Vásáry, the volume discusses the interaction of Turkic and Mongol pastoral societies with sedentary Islamic cultures in Iran and Central Asia, as well as the development of the resultant Turko-Persian culture in the medieval and early modern periods. The essays present this through a whole range of topics, such as Mongol and post-Mongol political culture, relations between the Mings of China and the Timurids of Central Asia and Iran, Central Asian weaponry, the vocabulary of pandemics and drinking culture in Turkic, Turkic ethnonyms, the structure of the aristocracy in the Crimean khanate, Sufi connections between Turkish Anatolia and the Golden Horde, literary multilingualism in Turkic, Persian, and Arabic, Central Asian epics, as well as Iranian scribal practices.

Contributors: Imre Baski, Gergely Csiky, Ferenc Csirkés, Devin DeWeese, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, David Morgan +, Benedek Péri, Zsombor Rajkai, Miklós Sárközy, Emadaldin Sheikhalhokamaee, Dávid Somfai Kara, Uli Schamiloglu, and Thomas Welsford.

About the Author

Ferenc Csirkés, Ph.D. (2016, The University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor in the History of the Pre-modern Islamicate World at the University of Birmingham. He works on the cultural and literary history of Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Central Asia, as well as on Turkish/Turkic and Persian literature.

Benedek Péri, Ph.D. (2000, Eötvös Loránd University) is an Associate Professor of Turkic Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where he is also Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies. He has published widely on the history of classical Turkic literary traditions, Turko-Persian literary contacts, Turkic language and literature in India, and Persian literature, recently producing a critical edition of The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm (2021).