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Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources
by Mehmed Fuad Kprl
Translated and Edited by Gary Leiser
University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
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Cover: A silver dirham struck by the last independent Seljuk sultan of Anatolia, Ghiyath al-Din Kai-Khusraw II (634-44/1237-45 or 1246). The inscription reads: al-Imam al-Mustansir bi'llah Amir al Mu'minin (the Abbasid caliph at that time).
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Kprl, Mehmed Fuat, 1890-1966. [Anadolu Seluklulari* tarihi'nin yerli kaynaklari*. English] The Seljuks of Anatolia : their history and culture according to local Muslim sources / by Mehmed Fuad Kprl ; translated and edited by Gary Leiser. p. cm. "Translation and edition of... Anadolu Seluklulari tarihi'nin yerli kaynaklari,... originally published in Belleten 7 (1943)"Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87480-403-5 I. SeljuksTurkeyHistorySources. 2. TurkeyHistoryTo 1453Sources. I. Leiser, Gary, 1946- . II. Title. DS27.K5813 1992 956.1'014dc20 92-53611 CIP
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This Translation is Dedicated to Anne and Terry
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xii
1. The Importance of Local Sources; Published Local Sources
1
2. Unpublished Sources
5
3. Chronicles
9
4. Lost Chronicles
15
5. Diplomatic Sources
23
6. Other Literary Sources
31
Notes
65
Bibliography
89
Index
99
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Preface
I present here a translation and edition of a long article in Turkish by Mehmed Fuad Kprl entitled "Anadolu Seluklulari* tarihi'nin yerli kaynaklari*" [Local sources for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia], which was originally published in Belleten 7 (1943), 379-458. This article was intended to be the introduction to a series of studies in which Kprl planned to describe, one by one, the most important surviving local sources for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia. The only such study to appear, however, was an appendix to this article in Belleten (pp. 459-519) on Qadi Burhan al-Din al-Anawi's Anis al-qulub. There Kprl described the life of the author and the manuscript of his work and its historical value, then presented an edition of the Persian text. In the course of the introduction translated here, Kprl frequently promised future publications on various subjects in addition to those in the series, but they too never appeared. All these works remained unfinished chiefly because Kprl's attention was drawn to other pursuits. After 1940, he devoted most of his scholarly energy to publishing the Islm* Ansiklopedisi and, at the same time, he became increasingly involved in Turkish politics. Indeed, by 1950, when he helped found the Democratic Party, his major interests had shifted completely from scholarship to politics. This introduction was one of his last substantial publications before his death in 1966 at the age of seventy-six.1
Kprl was the most dynamic Turkish intellectual of this century. His prolific and scholarly writings on the study of Turkish literature and history had a profound influence on the development of these disciplines in Turkey and rapidly earned him an international reputation. Nearly all
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of his publications were in Turkish, so his reputation was limited essentially to specialists in Turkish literature and history. The latter were primarily Ottomanists rather than medievalists (i.e., historians of medieval Islam), who were not particularly interested in his work on pre-Ottoman Turkish history. Thus, most of his work on this period has never reached a non-Turkish audience. Medieval Islamicists generally included pre-Ottoman Turkish history in their purview, but because virtually none of the sources for this history were in Turkish they believed they had no compelling need to learn that language. Even today, despite the growing body of work produced by Turkish specialists on pre-Ottoman Turkish history, very few of these medievalists bother to learn Turkish and are therefore mostly oblivious to scholarship in Turkey. As a result, there are both actual and potential shortcomings in some of their works. To study the history of the Seljuks, for example, without being able to read modern Turkish is somewhat like studying the history of medieval North Africa without being able to read French.
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