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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
This thesis assesses praise writing on the ʿAbbāsid Turkic guard across the third/ninth century, from the foundation of the guard to the semi-independent Ṭūlūnid dynasty. Chronicles and geographic writing from the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries are quick to cast the Turks as the ‘Other’, …