Hillenbrand Carole. The Medieval Turks: Collected Essays

Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 416 p.Collects 24 papers on the medieval Turks by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history- Traces the evolution of scholarship in the area over several decades
- Gathers many papers located in out-of-print or hard-to-find works
- Includes a preface that describes Professor Hillenbrand's fascination with medieval Turkey, and an index of names, places and termsThis volume explores the impact of the Turks on the medieval Islamic world. It covers themes such as nomadism, shamanism, clan and social structure, the role of women, military expertise, engagement with Islamic orthodoxy and the daily interface between Turks and non-Turks.The Medieval Turks is publishing alongside two further volumes of Carole Hillenbrand's collected papers: Classical Islam and Islam and the Crusades.Carole Hillenbrand is Honorary Professorial Fellow, Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews since 2013. In 2005 she became the first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, reflecting her ‘revolutionary approach to the largely one-sided subject of the Crusades’. She is author of The Crusades (EUP, 1999), The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate (Albany, 1989), A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times (Brill, 1990), and co-editor (with C. E. Bosworth) of Qajar Iran, (Edinburgh, 1984) and editor of The Sultan's Turret (Brill, 1999).