The coming of the Barbarians: Can climate explain the Saljūqs’ advance?

Yehoshua Frenkel

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7_13

The coming of the Barbarians: Can climate explain the Saljūqs’ advance?

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Abstract

The present study reviews recent interpretations of Central Asia’s and Northern Iran’s environmental and political history during the first half of the eleventh century. Namely, to cast light on the deficiencies in recent interpretations of Turkic Volkswanderung, and to advocate searching for political-social agents that would explain the Eurasian Steppe’s history. In opposite to climatological reading of those years regional history, it aims at advancing a call for a more nuanced paradigm of the coming of the Saljūqs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Socio-Environmental Dynamics Along the Historical Silk Road
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	261-273
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030007287
ISBN (Print)	9783030007270
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7_13
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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Keywords

Ghaznavids Saljūqs Bulliet Ellenblum Historiography Memory Environmental history

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
General Engineering
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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