Andrew Peacock
- KONYA ii. PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
The earliest reference to a manuscript collection in Konya is contained in the waqfiya of the amir Altun-Aba dating to…
- KONYA i. HISTORY AND PERSIAN CULTURE IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD
Little is known of the pre-Islamic history of Konya, known in Greek as Ikonion. From the 4th century CE, it…
- RAWWADIDS
RAWWADIDS (Ar. Rawwādiya, Rawādiya), a family of Arab descent that controlled Tabriz and north-eastern Azarbaijan in the late 8th and…
- SHADDADIDS
SHADDADIDS (Šaddādiya), Caucasian dynasty of Kurdish origin reigning from about 950 until 1200, first in Dvin and Ganja, later in…
- SALJUQS iii. SALJUQS OF RUM
SALJUQS iii. SALJUQS OF RUM A dynasty of Turkish origin that ruled much of Anatolia (Rum; ca. 1081-1308). The Saljuqs…