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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia This Page Has Been Left Blank Intentionally Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN MEDIEVAL ANATOLIA This page has been left blank intentionally Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia Edited by A.C.S. PEACOCK BRUNO DE NICOLA SARA NUR YILDIZ University of St Andrews, UK © A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yıldız, and the contributors 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yıldız have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this ork.w Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East 110 Cherry Street Union Road Suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, VT 05401-3818 Surrey, GU9 7PT USA England www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Islam and Christianity in medieval Anatolia / edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yıldız. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4724-4863-7 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-5635-9 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1- 4724-5636-6 (epub) 1. Islam--Relations--Christianity. 2. Christianity and other religions- -Islam. 3. Islam--Turkey--History. 4. Christianity--Turkey--History. 5. Seljuks. I. Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.) II. De Nicola, Bruno. III. Yıldız, Sara Nur. BP172.I8115 2015 297.2’8309561--dc23 2014037433 ISBN: 9781472448637 (hbk) ISBN: 9781472456359 (ebk – PDF) ISBN: 9781472456366 (ebk – ePUB) Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1HD Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements xv Note on Transliteration and Place Names xvi Abbreviations xvii Notes on Contributors xix Introduction 1 A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yıldız PartI ChrIstIanExPErIEnCEsofMuslIMrulE 1 ChristiansintheMiddleEast,600–1000:Conquest,Competition andConversion 23 Philip Wood 2 ChristianViewsofIslaminEarlyseljuqanatolia: Perceptionsandreactions 51 Alexander D. Beihammer 3 Patternsofarmeno-MuslimInterchangeonthearmenian PlateauintheIntersticebetweenByzantineandottoman hegemony 77 S. Peter Cowe 4 therapeofanatolia 107 Scott Redford 5 liquidfrontiers:arelationalanalysisofMaritimeasiaMinoras areligiousContactZoneinthethirteenth-fifteenthCenturies 117 Johannes Preiser-Kapeller 6 theGreekorthodoxCommunitiesofnicaeaandEphesusunder turkishruleinthefourteenthCentury:anewreadingofold sources 147 Johannes Pahlitzsch vi Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia PartII artIstICandIntEllECtualEnCountErsBEtwEEn IslaMandChrIstIanIty 7 Byzantineappropriationoftheorient:notesonitsPrinciples andPatterns 167 Rustam Shukurov 8 otherEncounters:PopularBeliefandCulturalConvergencein anatoliaandtheCaucasus 183 Antony Eastmond 9 thirteenth-Century‘Byzantine’artinCappadociaandthe QuestionofGreekPaintersattheseljuqCourt 215 Tolga B. Uyar 10 anInterfaithPolemicofMedievalanatolia:QāḍīBurhānal-dīn al-anawīonthearmeniansandtheirheresies 233 A.C.S. Peacock 11 ‘whatdoestheClappersay?’anInterfaithdiscourseonthe ChristianCalltoPrayerbyʿabdīshōʿbarBrīkhā 263 Salam Rassi PartIII thEforMatIonofIslaMICsoCIEtyInanatolIa 12 sunniorthodoxvsshiʿiteheterodox?:areappraisalofIslamic PietyinMedievalanatolia 287 Rıza Yıldırım 13 Mevlevi-BektashirivalriesandtheIslamisationofthePublic spaceinlateseljuqanatolia 309 Judith Pfeiffer 14 BattlingKufr(unbelief)inthelandofInfidels:Gülşehri’sturkish adaptationofʿaṭṭār’sManṭiq al-Ṭayr 329 Sara Nur Yıldız 15 IslamisationthroughthelensoftheSaltuk-name 349 Ahmet T. Karamustafa Bibliography 365 Index 409 List of Illustrations Colour Plates Plate 1 Saint Theodore and Saint George slaying the dragon. Wall painting, west wall, Church of Stratelates at Başköy (Mavrucan), Cappadocia (photo: Tolga B. Uyar) Plate 2 Saint Theodore and Saint George slaying the dragon. Wall painting, west wall, Church of Stratelates at Başköy (Mavrucan), Cappadocia (photo: Yıldız Ötüken) Plate 3 Saint Theodore and Saint George slaying the dragon, detail. Wall painting, west wall, Church of Stratelates at Başköy (Mavrucan), Cappadocia (photo: Tolga B. Uyar) Plate 4 Saint George slaying the dragon. Wall painting, niche on exterior wall, Church of Saint George at Belisırma (Kırkdamaltı Kilise), Ihlara, Cappadocia, (photo: Tolga B. Uyar) Plate 5 Saint Theodore and Saint George slaying the dragon. Wall painting, west wall, Karşı Kilise at Gülşehir, Cappadocia (photo: Tolga B. Uyar) Maps Map 1 The Byzantine eastern Mediterranean and neighbouring regions: Armenia, the Caucasus, the Jazira and Mesopotamia under the Abbasids, c.1050 xi Map 2 Anatolia c.1144: Byzantium, the Rūm Seljuqs, and other Turco- Muslim principalities (Danishmendids, Mengüjekids, Saltuqids, and Artuqids) xii Map 3 Thirteenth-Century Mongol-Dominated Seljuq Anatolia, c.1280 xiii Map 4 Anatolia c.1330: Byzantium, Turkish Beyliks, and the Ilkhanate xiv Black and White Figures 5.1 The network of land and sea routes in Southern Anatolia: Nodes are sized according to their betweenness centrality values (J. Preiser- Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 123 5.2 The embedding of Anatolia into the international web of commerce of the fourteenth century according to Francesco Pegolotti’s Handbook (nodes being localities from which or to which merchandise traded in the Anatolian cities found its way). Nodes viii Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia are scaled according to their betweenness centrality (J. Preiser- Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 130 5.3 The web of entanglements created by the Venetian galley of 1414 on the basis of the mobility of its crew and of the ship itself (nodes of localities sized according to the number of oarsmen coming from there) (J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 135 5.4 Connections between Famagusta and the Mediterranean world on the basis of links to the places or origin of merchants who came there to trade with slaves in 1300/1301 (J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 139 5.5 Connections between Famagusta and the Mediterranean world on the basis of links to the places from or via which slaves came who were traded in Famagusta in 1300/1301 (J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 140 5.6 Connections between Candia and the Mediterranean world on the basis of links to the places of origin of merchants who came there to trade with slaves in 1305/1306 (J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 141 5.7 Connections between Candia and Anatolia, the Aegean and the Black Sea on the basis of links to the places or origin of slaves who were traded there in 1305/1306 (J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2013; created with QuantumGIS) 142 8.1 Tower of Mamkhatun (Tower 63), Ani. 1219. Photo: author 183 8.2 Tower 5, Ani, showing crosses. Thirteenth century. Photo: author 187 8.3 Ulu Baden (Tower 31), Amid (Diyarbakır). 1207/8. Photo: author 189 8.4 Yedi Kardeş (Tower 39), Amid (Diyarbakır). 1207/8. Photo: author 190 8.5 Gate at Konya. c.1219–21. C. Texier, Description de l’Asie Mineure faite par Ordre du gouvernement Français de 1833 à 1837 (Paris: Didot Frères, 1839–49), plate 97. (Photo: Courtesy of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London) 193 8.6 Bāb al-Ṭalsim [Talisman gate], Baghdad. 1221. Photo: Friedrich Sarre, courtesy Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library 194 8.7 Ankara. Roman herms and altars re-employed in city walls. Photo: author 195 8.8 Ankara. Inscription re-employed in city walls. Photo: author 196 8.9 Astrolabe of al-Ashraf Mūsā, made by ʿAbd al-Karīm. Front. 1227–78. Photo: Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford 200 8.10 Astrolabe of al-Ashraf Mūsā, made by ʿAbd al-Karīm. Reverse. 1227–78. Photo: Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford 201 8.11 Astrological Treatise, National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi A-65, fol. 352r: Aries. Photo: National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi 203 8.12 Pseudo-Galen’s Kitāb al-Diryāq (Book of Antidotes), Paris BNF, MS Arabe 2964, fol. 15. 1199. Photo: BNF 204 List of Illustrations ix 8.13 Astrological Treatise, National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi A-65, fol. 376r: Sagittarius. Photo: National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi 205 8.14 Coin with Sagittarius. Nāṣir al-Dīn Artuq Arslan. Mardin 1202–03. The David Collection, Copenhagen, Inv. C 191. Photo: Pernille Klemp 206 8.15 Mars in Scorpio on Tower 11, Amid (Diyarbakır), twelfth century (?). Photo: author 207 8.16 Pisces, Aries, Taurus on the Bridge at Jazira ibn ʿUmar (Cizre), 1164. Photo: Courtesy of the Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University (M_087) 208 8.17 Mirror. Seljuq, 1153. Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo 209 8.18 Talismanic bows, made for Zayn al-Dīn. Syria, 1224. Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin inv. I.3633. Photo: bpk / Museum für Islamische Kunst, SMB / Georg Niedermeiser 210 8.19 Hystera amulet. Byzantine, twelfth century. The Menil Collection, Texas. Inv. 490.824. Recto © The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Paul Hester. Verso © The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Taylor and Dull, NY 211 9.1 T’amar, donor portrait (1282–1295 or 1302–1310). Wall painting, west wall, Church of Saint George at Belisırma (Kırkdamaltı Kilise), Ihlara, Cappadocia, (photo: Tolga B. Uyar) 220 9.2 Shamhurash, dragon-slaying angel (mid to late thirteenth century). Miniature illustration from Daqā’iq al-ḥaqā’iq,
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