Turks : a journey of a thousand years, 600-1600 /
edited by David J. Roxburgh.
- London : New York : Royal Academy of Arts ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, c2005.
- 494 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 31 cm.
[15] p. of errata sheets inserted. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 22 Jan. to 12 April 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-489) and index.
The Turks: a historical overview / Religions of the Turks in the pre-Islamic period / The Turks: a chronology / Chinese Central Asia (Xinjiang): its peoples and its culture / The emergence of Turkic dynastic presence in the Islamic world: cultural experiences and artistic horizons, 950-1250 / The Anatolian Seljuks / Glimpses into the fourteenth-century Turkic world of Central Asia: the paintings of Muhammad Siyah Qalam / The Timurid and Turkmen dynasties of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia, c. 1370-1506 / Art of the Ottoman court / The Ottoman sultans as poets / The Turkic languages / Peter B. Golden -- Peter Zieme -- Peter B. Golden -- Marianne Yaldiz -- Oya Pancaroğlu -- Nazan Ölçer -- Filiz Çağman -- David J. Roxburgh -- Serpil Bağci, Zeren Tanindi -- Mustafa Isen -- Osman Fikri Sertkaya. 1. Central Asia, 600-1000 -- 2. The Seljuks of Iran and their successors -- 3. The Seljuks and Artuqids of medieval Anatolia -- 4. Muhammad of the Black Pen and his paintings -- 5. The Timurids and Turkmen -- 6. The Ottomans: from Mehmed II to Murad III -- Catalogue entries --