a ISBN 978-605-525030-0

a ISBN 6-05-525030-6

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number DS156.S6

b Item number R43 2014

a Personal name Redford, Scott,

a Title Legends of Authority :

b Remainder of title the 1215 Seljuk inscriptions of Sinop Citadel, Turkey/

c Statement of responsibility, etc Scott Redford ; with a chapter by James Crow and contributions by Oktay Özel, A.C.S. Peacock, Adrian Saunders and W.M. Thackston, Jr.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc İstanbul :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Koç Üniversitesi,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014.

a Extent 287 p. :

b Other physical details col ill. ;

c Dimensions 26 cm

a General note "Maps, plans and photogrammetric elevations by Ka.Ba. Conservation of Historic Buildings and Architecture Ltd."

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and index.

a Summary, etc This book reintroduces and reexamines the Seljuk inscriptions from the walls of Sinop citadel. First published at the beginning of the last century, these inscriptions open a window onto scribal, administrative, and architectural practice during an important, formative period of the Seljuk sultanate in the early thirteenth century. 16 inscriptions of Sinop citadel, all made within a five month period in the summer of 1215, allow us a glimpse of the Seljuk elite at work, with aspirations and ideals of state and office mixing and competing with individual and factional rivalries and administrative changes. This book corrects previous published versions, and offers for the first time a reading of the main sultanic inscription, which has been chiselled out. Contributors analyze the Persian verse inscription, the first of its kind from Seljuk Anatolia, and the only known Seljuk bilingual Arabic-Greek inscription.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Islamic antiquities

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Architecture, Seljuk

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Architecture, Seljuk

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Inscriptions, Arabic

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Inscriptions, Greek

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Inscriptions, Persian

a Personal name Crow, James,

a Personal name Özel, Oktay,

a Personal name Peacock, A. C. S.

a Personal name Saunders, Adrian,

a Personal name Thackston, W. M.

d Dates associated with a name 1944-