Author: Roxburgh, David J.
Title: Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600
Description: London, Royal Academy, 2005. Hardcover. A blue cloth casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a black spine. Pages: (8), 9-494, (4). Profusely illustrated with color images detailing more than 370 works. "This catalogue accompanies an exhibition devoted to the artistic and cultural riches of the Turks. Essays by leading scholars trace Turkic history and cultural development, while paintings, sculpture, textiles, metalwork and ceramics reflect the artistic influences that the Turks assimilated, from their early nomadic wanderings to the glories produced during the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent." Contents are as follows: The Turks: a historical overview /; Peter B. Golden --; Religions of the Turks in the pre-Islamic period /; Peter Zieme --; The Turks: a chronology /; Peter B. Golden --; 1. Central Asia, 600-1000 --; Chinese Central Asia (Xinjiang): its peoples and its culture /; Marianne Yaldiz --; 2. The Seljuks of Iran and their successors --; The emergence of Turkic dynastic presence in the Islamic world: cultural experiences and artistic horizons, 950-1250 /; Oya Pancaro lu --; 3. The Seljuks and Artuqids of medieval Anatolia --; The Anatolian Seljuks /; Nazan Ölçer --; 4. Muhammad of the Black Pen and his paintings --; Glimpses into the fourteenth-century Turkic world of Central Asia: the paintings of Muhammad Siyah Qalam /; Filiz Ça man --; 5. The Timurids and Turkmen --; The Timurid and Turkmen dynasties of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia, c. 1370-1506 /; David J. Roxburgh --; 6. The Ottomans: from Mehmed II to Murad III --; Art of the Ottoman court /; Serpil Ba ci,; Zeren Tanindi --; Catalogue entries --; The Ottoman sultans as poets /; Mustafa Isen --; The Turkic languages /; Osman Fikri Sertkaya. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Sticker on front free end page. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page.

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