The Breaking of a Thousand Swords

The Breaking of a Thousand SwordsA portrait of the Samarran Turk community while in the employ of the 'Abbasid caliphate during the ninth century. The Breaking of a Thousand Swords provides a portrait of the Samarran Turks as members of a community with a specific and complex history in the early medieval Islamic world. It considers: the encounter of the Turks as rough, non Muslim outsiders, with the sedentary, urbane world of Baghdad; the closely related encounter of the Turks with

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