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Faruk Sümer, ¡ abanlu Pazari: Selçuklular Devrinde Mailletlerarasi Büyük Bir
Fuar (Istanbul, 1985), which includes a detailed summary translation into
English and the Arabic originals of the sources. For a general assessment of
Mongol rule in Anatolia, see idem, "Anadolu'da Mogollar * ," Selçuklu
Arastirmalari * Dergisi 1(1969):1-147. A proliferation of local minting at the
end of the thirteenth century is mentioned in Rudi P. Lindner, "A Silver Age in
Seljuk Anatolia," in Türk Nümismatik Derneginin * 20. Kurulus * , ¡ ilinda
Ibrahim * Artuk'a Armagan * (Istanbul, 1988).
9. Marshall Sahlins, The Islands of History (Chicago, 1985), 79.
10. `Asikpasazade * , ed. Giese, 9-10. The translation is a modified version of
the one given by Lindner, Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia (Bloomington,
1983), 37.
11. On that theory, see Terence Spencer, "Turks and Trojans in the Renaissance,"
Modern Language Review 47(1952):330-33; Agostino Pertusi, "I primi studi in
Occidente sull'origine e la potenza dei Turchi," Studi Verneziani
12(1970):465-552; S. Runciman, "Teucri and Turci," Medieval and Middle Eastern
Studies in Honour of Aziz Suryal Atiya, ed. S. Hanna (Leiden, 1972), 344-48; and
F. L. Borchardt, German Antiquity in Renaissance Myth (Baltimore, 1971), 85,
292.
12. The passage appears in the only historical work that can be called an
official chronicle under Mehmed * , and it was written in Greek: Michael
Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror, trans. C. T. Riggs (Princeton,
1954), 1981-82.
13. Lawrence Stone, "The Revolution over the Revolution," New ¡ ork Review of
Books, 11 June 1992, 47-52.
14. Norman Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the
Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (New York, 1991).
15. Two detailed narrative accounts have appeared to which the reader can now
refer: Colin Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1481 (Istanbul, 1990); and Halil
Inalcik, "The Ottoman Turks and the Crusades, 1329-1451," in K. M. Setton,
general ed., A History of the Crusades, vol. 6, The Impact of the Crusades on
Europe, ed. H. W. Hazard and N. P. Zacour (Madison, 1989), 222-75.
16. The term is used in the historiography of Muslim cultures to denote cases
like that of "the petty kings who ruled the tribes of western Asia after the
death of Alexander the Great" (definition given by J. W. Redhouse, A Turkish and
English Lexicon [Istanbul, 1890], s.v.).
17. For a sympathetic assessment of his work, see J. R. Barcia, ed., Américo
Castro and the Meaning of the Spanish Civilization (Berkeley, 1976).
18. The case of India, invaded and then ruled in large part by Muslim conquerors
in its "medieval" history, obviously presents many parallels to both Anatolia
and Iberia. See, for instance, the inflammatory title of a scholarly article by
A. L. Srivastava: "A Survey of India's Resistance to Medieval Invaders from the
North-West: Causes of Eventual Hindu Defeat," Journal of Indian History 43
(1965):349-68.
19. See p. 190 in the lead essay by C. E. Bosworth to "Othmanli," EI, new ed.,
s.v. The fascicule that contains this entry appeared in 1993.
20. National historiographic projects, European or otherwise, eliminated more
than ethnic diversity of course. Cultural and social diversity of all kinds
could be marginalized or "otherized" and deemed to lie beyond "us." See, for
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