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Author, Warriors, Martyrs, Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)

Author, Warriors, Martyrs, Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the land of Rome... AL-MASĀQ 2020, VOL. 32, NO. 2, 202–224 BOOK REVIEWS Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Author, Warriors, Martyrs, Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, th th Shifting Identities in the land of Rome (13 -15 Centuries), The Medieval Mediterranean CXIX (Leiden, 2020), xii + 259 pp. The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in Seljuk and early-Ottoman Anatolia with many volumes seeking to recreate its political, cultural and social history. Working on this topic poses substantial challenges to scholars, not least the fact that there is a huge array of textual sources on this region/period written in multiple languages, very few of which were written by the Turks themselves. Recent studies range from Peacock’s Early Seljūq History to Mecit’s The Rum Seljuqs: Evolution of a Dynasty. There has also been a great deal of work on the area’s architectural history including monographs, such as: Blessing’s Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330 and the essay collection Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 (ed. by Bles- sing and Goshgarian). Consequently, this present work joins this conversation at a timely moment. One of the most fascinating fields of research for those writing on this area concerns the relationships http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ 2020, VOL. 32, NO. 2, 202–224 BOOK REVIEWS Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Author, Warriors, Martyrs, Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, th th Shifting Identities in the land of Rome (13 -15 Centuries), The Medieval Mediterranean CXIX (Leiden, 2020), xii + 259 pp. The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in Seljuk and early-Ottoman Anatolia with many volumes seeking to recreate its political, cultural and social history. Working on this topic poses substantial...
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AL-MASĀQ 2020, VOL. 32, NO. 2, 202–224 BOOK REVIEWS Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Author, Warriors, Martyrs, Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, th th Shifting Identities in the land of Rome (13 -15 Centuries), The Medieval Mediterranean CXIX (Leiden, 2020), xii + 259 pp. The past decade has witnessed a growing interest in Seljuk and early-Ottoman Anatolia with many volumes seeking to recreate its political, cultural and social history. Working on this topic poses substantial challenges to scholars, not least the fact that there is a huge array of textual sources on this region/period written in multiple languages, very few of which were written by the Turks themselves. Recent studies range from Peacock’s Early Seljūq History to Mecit’s The Rum Seljuqs: Evolution of a Dynasty. There has also been a great deal of work on the area’s architectural history including monographs, such as: Blessing’s Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330 and the essay collection Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 (ed. by Bles- sing and Goshgarian). Consequently, this present work joins this conversation at a timely moment. One of the most fascinating fields of research for those writing on this area concerns the relationships

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