Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion

by Vasilii Vladimirovich Bartold

Book Overview

Academician Barthold's famous work begins in the late 7th century with the Muslim invasions of what became Russian Central Asia and carries the history of the region through the period of Abbasid centralization, that of the rise of local Muslim dynasties and successive phases of Turkish dominance down to the arrival of Chingiz Khan in the early 13th. Barthold's mastery of the historical and geographical sources and his sound critical judgement were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906094003
• ISBN13: 9780906094006
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.5"