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This volume collects 24 papers on the medieval Turks by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. 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.

Turkic peoples --- History

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Qashqāʼī (Turkic people) --- Kashgai (Turkic people) --- Kashkai tribe --- Kaşkay (Turkic people) --- Khashgai (Turkic people) --- Qashgai (Turkic people) --- Quashqai (Turkic people) --- Ethnology --- Oghuz (Turkic people) --- Turkic peoples --- Iran --- History

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Throughout its history the concept of "Uzbekness," or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network. Accession is comparatively easy, as Uzbekness is grounded in a cultural model of territoriality, rather than genealogy, as the basis for social attachments. It acknowledges regional variation and the possibility of membership by voluntary decision. Therefore, the boundaries of being Uzbek vary almost by definition, incorporating elements of local langua

Uzbeks --- Usbeg (Turkic people) --- Uzbeg (Turkic people) --- Uzbek (Turkic people) --- Ethnology --- Turkic peoples --- Ethnic identity. --- Social networks. --- Cultural assimilation.

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The Cumans and the Tatars were nomadic warriors of the Eurasian steppe who exerted an enduring impact on the medieval Balkans. With this work, István Vásáry presents an extensive examination of their history from 1185 to 1365. The basic instrument of Cuman and Tatar political success was their military force, over which none of the Balkan warring factions could claim victory. As a consequence, groups of the Cumans and the Tatars settled and mingled with the local population in various regions of the Balkans. The Cumans were the founders of three successive Bulgarian dynasties (Asenids, Terterids and Shishmanids) and the Wallachian dynasty (Basarabids). They also played an active role in Byzantium, Hungary and Serbia, with Cuman immigrants being integrated into each country's elite. This book also demonstrates how the prevailing political anarchy in the Balkans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries made it ripe for the Ottoman conquest.

Kipchak (Turkic people) --- Tatars --- Tartars --- Ethnology --- Mongols --- Turkic peoples --- Kereyid (Asian people) --- Coman (Turkic people) --- Cuman (Turkic people) --- Kipchak --- Kuman (Turkic people) --- Polovtsi (Turkic people) --- Polovtsy (Turkic people) --- Balkan Peninsula --- Civilization. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Qipchak (Turkic people) --- Qipchaq (Turkic people)

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The Cumans are known to history as nomadic, mounted warriors. Some arrived in the Hungarian Kingdom in the mid-thirteenth century seeking asylum, eventually settling and integrating. This study collects historical, ethnographic and archaeological information on the animal husbandry aspect of the development of the Cuman population in Hungary.

Animal remains (Archaeology). --- Kipchak (Turkic people). --- Hungary.