NMC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Animism, Acculturation, Ghaznavids
15 Dec 2015
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Kazakh/qazaq, kirghiz/kyrgyz, karakalpak, uighur, tatar, etc. (note: not all muslim peoples: modern states: turkey, azerbaijan, turkmenistan, uzbekistan, kazakhstan, kirghizistan, total population: ca. 180 200 million; turkey 74, uzbekistan 26, kazakhstan 9 million. Culture and characteristics: originally pastoral nomads; excellent horsemen, cavalry archers, military men par excellence (reading from jahiz, d. 869, on the merits of the turks , symbiotic relationship with sedentary peoples (esp. Iranian and wrote in persian), ruler/astronomer ulugh beg, founder of mughal empire. Babur, contemporary turkish author (nobel prize laureate) orhan pamuk; prominent modern artists. Historical background: pre-islamic: k k t rk, uighur empires, use of turkic mercenaries/slave soldiers by early islamic polities: abbasids, samanids, Buyids, ghaznavids, etc: oghuz confederation frontier regions, islamization; move into the middle east 11th c, dominate the medieval (especially iranian) islamic world politically: In east: karakhanids (10th 11th c. ), ghaznavids (10th 12th c. ), seljuks (11th . 14th c. ), mongols (13th 14th c. ), t rkmen dynasties (15th c. ), timurids (15th c. ),
