A C S Peacock
Biographic Data
| ID | 23651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A C S Peacock |
| GIVEN NAMES | A C S |
| FAMILY NAME | Peacock |
| SIGNATURE | PEACOCK A C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2225-1279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Notes on some proper names in Shah Tahmasp’s Memoirs: A reply to Kioumars Ghereghlou
Medieval Eastern Turkish Interlinear Translation: Their Manuscripts, Audience, and Persian Background
This article discusses interlinear translations in Middle Turkic/Medieval Eastern Turkish (also known as Qarakhanid and Khwarazmian Turkish). The article surveys the extant interlinear Qur’anic translations that have come down to us, and argues these are closely connected with a slightly earlier Persian tradition, exemplified by the Samanid-era translation of al-Ṭabarī’s Tafsīr. The article discusses the evidence for the context of production and…
Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts. It offers new perspectives on intellectual interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the development of Islam and especially Sufism in the region, the relationship between the Arabic and Malay literary traditions, and the manuscript culture of the Indian Ocean world. It brings to lig…
Persian in the Lands of Rum: Texts, Translations and Courtly Patronage
Persian texts composed in Anatolia both in the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman periods have received scant scholarly attention, and Persian remains perceived as an alien language. This article presents an overview of Persian in Anatolia and the Ottoman empire from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. It argues that in the medieval period Persian texts were more widely disseminated than is often assumed, and goes on to analyse the changing fate of Persian…
Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145–1190 ce By Alka Patel
Journal Article Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145–1190 CE By Alka Patel Get access Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145–1190 CEBy Alka Patel ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), xvii + 402 pp. Price HB £95.00. EAN 978–1474482226. A C S Peacock A C S Peacock University of St Andrews E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Isl…
Melaka in the Arabic, Persian and Turkish sources
This paper examines Melaka's links with the Middle East during the long fifteenth century through the evidence of the sources written in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. These comprise Arabic navigational texts, Arabic inscriptions from Melaka itself, Persian geographical texts, and Turkish chronicles and administrative documents. Together, they show how the Melaka sultanate was perceived and remembered in the broader Islamic world
Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World
The Islamic–byzantine Frontier in Seljuq Anatolia
An Embassy from the Sultan of Darfur to the Sublime Porte in 1791
This article presents documents relating to the embassy sent by Sultan ʿAbd al-Raḥmān of Darfur to the Ottoman Sultan Selim III in 1791. These include an original Arabic letter which is an unusually early surviving example of sultanic correspondence from the Sahel. The documents permit a new interpretation of the purposes of the embassy, as well as an examination of chancery practice in Darfur, and offer an insight into Darfuri views of the outsi…
Early Islamic Imperial Space
This chapter investigates the emergence of imperial space in the early Islamic world, 7th–12th centuries, and Muslim notions of empire in this period. It examines how an imperial space was conquered under the Prophet Muhammad, Rashidun Caliphs and Umayyad dynasty, reaching its height in c.740, followed by its fragmentation under the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258). The role of jihad in this expansion is examined, along with the institutions that bou…
Urban Agency and the City Notables of Medieval Anatolia
Scholarship on the city in the Islamic world has generally played down the autonomy and collective agency of cities. This article explores the case of Anatolia, usually neglected in discussions of Islamic urbanism, focusing on the Seljuq period of the 13th century. While much scholarship on Anatolia acknowledges the role of futuwwa (trade-based confraternities somewhat analogous to guilds), I argue the independence of these organisations has been…
The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty By Christopher Markiewicz
This important book uses the life and works of the bureaucrat Idris Bidlisi (1457–1520) to shed fresh light on Ottoman ideology, historiography and intellectual life in the empire’s formative period in the fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries. Bidlisi has till recently been neglected by scholarship, despite being not just a leading bureaucrat, who played a crucial role in the annexation of Kurdish territories to the empire, but also one of the …
Iyani, A Shirazi Poet and Historian in the Bahmani Deccan
This paper examines MS D. 92 of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras/Chennai, which contains the works of ‘Iyani, a late fifteenth century Shirazi poet and historian. ‘Iyani had migrated to the Deccan, and wrote in Persian in the Bahmani sultanate (1347–1528), receiving the patronage of both Sultan Mahmud Shah (r. 1482–924) and Habib al-Din Muhibballah, a descendant of the Sufi saint Shah Ni‘matallah Vali of Kirman. The paper inves…
Indo-Persian Manuscripts
The present collection of papers represents a selection of those presented at a conference on “Indo-Persian Manuscripts: Issues and Challenges in Modern Times” organised by the British Institute of
CHAPTER 11 A Seljuq Occult Manuscript and its World: MS Paris persan 174
History, piety and factional politics in the Arabic chronicle of the Maldives: Ḥasan Tāj al-Dīn’s Ta’rīkh and its continuations
The Arabic chronicle ( Ta’rīkh ) of the Maldives composed by the qadi Ḥasan Tāj al-Dīn (d. 1139/1727) and continued by his nephew Muḥammad Muḥibb al-Dīn (1118/1706-1199/1785) and his grandson Ibrāhīm Sirāj al-Dīn (d. after 1243/1827) is major but unexploited source for not just Maldivian but also Indian Ocean history more broadly. Covering Maldivian history from the purported date of the islands’ conversion to Islam in 548/1143, the Ta’rīkh is al…
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699, written by Sher Banu A. L. Khan
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker By JaneHathaway
This fine study investigates the characteristic, but surprisingly under-researched, Ottoman institution of the Chief Harem Eunuch (Darüssaade Ağası) who played a prominent (and sometimes dominant) role in Ottoman court politics over the late sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, but survived to nearly the end of the dynasty. As Hathaway points out (p. 2), it is astonishing that no scholarly book-length study of the institution has been undertaken to…
Nuṣrat al-fatrah wa-ʿuṣrat al-fiṭrah (The History of the Seljuks) Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿImād al-Kātib al-Aṣfahāni
Nuṣrat al-fatrah wa-ʿuṣrat al-fiṭrah (The History of the Seljuks) Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿImād al-Kātib al-Aṣfahāni Nuṣrat al-fatrah wa-ʿuṣrat al-fiṭrah (The History of the Seljuks) By Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿImād al-Kātib al-Aṣfahāni (597 ah/1200 ce), edited by Issam Mustafa Okleh (London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2019. Silsilat al-Nuṣūṣ al-Muḥaqqaqah), 2 vols. 443 pp. + 598pp. Price HB £60.00. EAN 978–1788145336. Andrew Peacoc…
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.): Sources from the Ottoman Archives
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives, is a product of meticulous study of İsmail Hakkı Kadı, A.C.S. Peacock and other contributors on historical documents from the Ottoman archives. The work contains documents in Ottoman-Turkish, Malay, Arabic, French, English, Tausug, Burmese and Thai languages, each introduced by an expert in the language and history of the related country. The work contains documents hitherto un…
Sufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharīʿa, Lineage and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives
Firdawsi’s Shahnama in its Ghaznavid Context
Firdawsi’s Shahnama, the completion of which is traditionally to around 400/1010, is generally thought to have been a failure at first. It is said by both traditional accounts and much modern scholarship to have been rejected by its dedicatee Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, and its contents of ancient Iranian legends, transmitted from earlier sources, are widely considered to have been out of step with the literary tastes of the Ghaznavid period. This a…
Islamisation in the Golden Horde and Anatolia: Some remarks on travelling scholars and texts
This article1 examines the intellectual connections between Anatolia and the Golden Horde in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It argues that an exchange of scholars and texts between the two regions had a profound influence on shaping the literary and religious traditions of both. The formation of the literary Turkish language in Anatolia, an increasingly important means for the dissemination of Islam from the end of the thirteenth centur…
Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History
"The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the 25 chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative perspective, both the historical trajectory of Islamisation and the methodological problems in its study are addressed, with coverage moving from Africa to China and from the 7th century to the start of the colonial period in 1800. The volume is divided into …
Jeddah and the India Trade in the Sixteenth Century: Arabian Contexts and Imperial Policy
This article argues that despite the advent of Ottoman rule and the encroachment of the Portuguese, the commercial system of the sixteenth century Red Sea, in particular the trade in spices brought from India, was characterised by continuities with Mamluk practice. Further, it emphasises the importance of local politics, especially the role of the Sharifs of Mecca, and rivalries between individual Red Sea ports as factors in determining the natur…
The Enigma of ‘Aydhab: A Medieval Islamic Port on the Red Sea Coast
The medieval Islamic port of ‘Aydhab played a major role in the hajj and in trade with Yemen, India and the Far East. A recent satellite image reveals the layout of the town in some detail, but there seems to be no trace of a viable harbour. Yet there was a fine secure harbour at Halaib, 20 km to the south. We tentatively suggest that the main port of ‘Aydhab was separate from the town. This hypothesis can only be verified by fieldwork and our ob…
Suakin: A Northeast African Port in the Ottoman Empire
Capital of the Ottoman province of Habeş and a major entrepôt for trade between the African interior and the Hijaz, the Indian Ocean, and Egypt, Suakin’s apogee largely coincided with its direct rule by the Ottomans between the early to mid sixteenth century and the early nineteenth century. Although a number of short studies of the history of Suakin have been written, these have rarely referred to the pertinent Ottoman language sources. Older sc…
Aḥmad of Niğde's al-Walad al-Shafῑq and the Seljuk past
The unpublished unique manuscript of the 14th century Persian work known as al-Walad al-Shafiq (‘The Compassionate Child’) held in the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul has hitherto never been studied in detail, although it is of considerable importance as a source for medieval Anatolia. This article assesses al-Walad al-Shafiq in the context of the Persian historiography of Anatolia and the historical milieu in which it was composed, arguing that …
The Great Seljuk Empire
The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state which dominated the Middle East and Central Asia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This book surveys that period, which was one of exceptional importance, witnessing profound demographic, religious, political and social changes in the Islamic Middle East. The Turkish invasions played a role in provoking the Crusades, led to the collapse of Byzantine power in Anatolia and brought about the beginni…
Nomadic Society and the Seljūq Campaigns in Caucasia
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations (2 vols.): Sources from the Ottoman Archives
Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives, is a product of meticulous study of İsmail Hakkı Kadı, A.C.S. Peacock and other contributors on historical documents from the Ottoman archives. The work contains documents in Ottoman-Turkish, Malay, Arabic, French, English, Tausug, Burmese and Thai languages, each introduced by an expert in the language and history of the related country. The work contains documents hitherto un…
Georgia and the Anatolian Turks in the 12th and 13th centuries
This article presents a study of the political and military relations of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Muslims of Anatolia from the 12th century AD up to the Mongol conquest of the region in the mid 13th century. Georgia's expansion during the 12th century and the web of marriage alliance that the Muslim rulers of Anatolia wove to protect themselves drew her into conflict even with distant principalities with which she shared no border, such as …
The Saljūq Campaign against the Crimea and the Expansionist Policy of the Early Reign of ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Kayqubād
The reign of Sultan ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Kayqubād (1219-1237) is depicted by both mediaeval and modern sources as the apogee of the Saljūq Sultanate of Rūm (Anatolia) (c. 1081–1308). The later court historian, Ibn Bībī, reflected subsequent generations' perception of ‘Alā’ al-Dīn when he recorded that “the earth has never borne a king the like of him, nor have the high heavens looked down on such a one”. Above all, his reign was remembered for the great …
Firdawsi’s Shahnama in its Ghaznavid Context
Firdawsi’s Shahnama, the completion of which is traditionally to around 400/1010, is generally thought to have been a failure at first. It is said by both traditional accounts and much modern scholarship to have been rejected by its dedicatee Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, and its contents of ancient Iranian legends, transmitted from earlier sources, are widely considered to have been out of step with the literary tastes of the Ghaznavid period. This a…
The Ottomans and the Funj sultanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
This article examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman sources for the Funj sultanate that ruled the Gezira and Nile Valley regions of the modern Sudan. It also aims to elucidate the relationship between the Ottoman empire and the Funj sultanate. In the first part of the article, the sixteenth-century Ottoman sources, largely documents from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, are translated and analysed. In the second part, two seventeent…
Court Historiography of the Seljuq Empire in Iran and Iraq: Reflections on Content, Authorship and Language
This paper reexamines the Arabic and Persian historical literature of the Seljuq period (1040–1194), concentrating on works produced in circles connected with the sultanic court. It considers the relationship between the Arabic and Persian works, the authors' motives for composition, and the reasons for choice of language. It also compares these works with their predecessors, especially the historiography of the Ghaznavid court, with a view to as…
Sinop: A Frontier City in Seljuq and Mongol Anatolia
This article considers the history of Sinop in the first century of Muslim rule, from 1214 to the early fourteenth century, when the city was ruled successively by the Seljuq, Pervaneid and Candarid dynasties. During this period, the Seljuqs constantly vied with Christian Trebizond for control of the city despite both sides being nominally Mongol vassals from the mid-thirteenth century. In the first part of this article, the political history of …
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A Comparison Of Component And Factor Patterns: A Monte Carlo Approach
Factor analysis and component analysis represent two broad classes of methods employed generally with similar types of problems. The purpose of the present study is to determine the extent to which and under what conditions the methods produce different patterns. Principal component analysis, image component analysis, and maximum likelihood factor analysis were performed on simulated data matrices. Comparisons were made between each of the three …
Aḥmad of Niğde's al-Walad al-Shafῑq and the Seljuk past
The unpublished unique manuscript of the 14th century Persian work known as al-Walad al-Shafiq (‘The Compassionate Child’) held in the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul has hitherto never been studied in detail, although it is of considerable importance as a source for medieval Anatolia. This article assesses al-Walad al-Shafiq in the context of the Persian historiography of Anatolia and the historical milieu in which it was composed, arguing that …
Nomadic Society and the Seljūq Campaigns in Caucasia
Georgia and the Anatolian Turks in the 12th and 13th centuries
This article presents a study of the political and military relations of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Muslims of Anatolia from the 12th century AD up to the Mongol conquest of the region in the mid 13th century. Georgia's expansion during the 12th century and the web of marriage alliance that the Muslim rulers of Anatolia wove to protect themselves drew her into conflict even with distant principalities with which she shared no border, such as …
The Saljūq Campaign against the Crimea and the Expansionist Policy of the Early Reign of ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Kayqubād
The reign of Sultan ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Kayqubād (1219-1237) is depicted by both mediaeval and modern sources as the apogee of the Saljūq Sultanate of Rūm (Anatolia) (c. 1081–1308). The later court historian, Ibn Bībī, reflected subsequent generations' perception of ‘Alā’ al-Dīn when he recorded that “the earth has never borne a king the like of him, nor have the high heavens looked down on such a one”. Above all, his reign was remembered for the great …
Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Balʻamī's Tārīkhnāma
"A.C.S. Peacock's book, Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal'ami's Tarikhnama is the first research monograph on this major historical work and shows how its composition and reception were influenced by political circumstances. Commissioned by the ruler of one of the largest and most powerful Muslims states of the tenth century, the Samanid dynasty of Central Asia, and composed by his vizier, the Tarikhnama tells us much…
Utbī's al-Yamīnī: Patronage, Composition and Reception
The Enigma of ‘Aydhab: A Medieval Islamic Port on the Red Sea Coast
The medieval Islamic port of ‘Aydhab played a major role in the hajj and in trade with Yemen, India and the Far East. A recent satellite image reveals the layout of the town in some detail, but there seems to be no trace of a viable harbour. Yet there was a fine secure harbour at Halaib, 20 km to the south. We tentatively suggest that the main port of ‘Aydhab was separate from the town. This hypothesis can only be verified by fieldwork and our ob…
Sinop: A Frontier City in Seljuq and Mongol Anatolia
This article considers the history of Sinop in the first century of Muslim rule, from 1214 to the early fourteenth century, when the city was ruled successively by the Seljuq, Pervaneid and Candarid dynasties. During this period, the Seljuqs constantly vied with Christian Trebizond for control of the city despite both sides being nominally Mongol vassals from the mid-thirteenth century. In the first part of this article, the political history of …
Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation
Introduction: The Early Seljuqs in Mediaeval and Modern Historiography 1. The Origins and Early History of the Seljuqs: Western Eurasia and Transoxiana, c. 900-1025 2. The Tribes and the Seljuq Dynasty 3. Warfare, Conquest and Migration: The Seljuqs in Central Asia, Iran and Iraq to 1055 4. The Seljuqs and Islam 5. The Nature and Impact of the Turkish Invasions: Anatolia and the Middle East, 1029-71. Conclusion
Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History
Suakin: A Northeast African Port in the Ottoman Empire
Capital of the Ottoman province of Habeş and a major entrepôt for trade between the African interior and the Hijaz, the Indian Ocean, and Egypt, Suakin’s apogee largely coincided with its direct rule by the Ottomans between the early to mid sixteenth century and the early nineteenth century. Although a number of short studies of the history of Suakin have been written, these have rarely referred to the pertinent Ottoman language sources. Older sc…
The Ottomans and the Funj sultanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
This article examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman sources for the Funj sultanate that ruled the Gezira and Nile Valley regions of the modern Sudan. It also aims to elucidate the relationship between the Ottoman empire and the Funj sultanate. In the first part of the article, the sixteenth-century Ottoman sources, largely documents from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, are translated and analysed. In the second part, two seventeent…
The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East
Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then - well before the arrival of the Ottomans - that a Turkish population became firmly established in these lands. But these developments are little understood, and the Seljuk dynasty remains little studied. Yet the Seljuks of Anatolia were one of the most influential d…
Court and Nomadic Life in Saljuq Anatolia
In this chapter, the author proposes that, even at the dynasty's zenith in the early seventh/thirteenth century, the sultans maintained a close relationship with at least some groups of Turkmens. He first examines where exactly the sultans lived, and shows that, while they had multiple residences, both urban and rural, Konya held a special importance for them as home to the dynastic burial ground. Then, he demonstrates that, far from sheltering b…
Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the history of Iran: Art, literature and culture from early Islam to Qajar Persia
"I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation. Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. The result is a seminal work which il…
Court Historiography of the Seljuq Empire in Iran and Iraq: Reflections on Content, Authorship and Language
This paper reexamines the Arabic and Persian historical literature of the Seljuq period (1040–1194), concentrating on works produced in circles connected with the sultanic court. It considers the relationship between the Arabic and Persian works, the authors' motives for composition, and the reasons for choice of language. It also compares these works with their predecessors, especially the historiography of the Ghaznavid court, with a view to as…
Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation
From the political dissolution of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-ninth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Persianate dynasties of Islamic Central Asia constituted the political and military stronghold of Sunni Islam. It was in this region, historically known as Khurasan and Transoxiana, that many of the important religious and cultural developments of Islamic civilisation took place. The region first gave rise to the Abbasi…
The Great Seljuk Empire
The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state which dominated the Middle East and Central Asia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This book surveys that period, which was one of exceptional importance, witnessing profound demographic, religious, political and social changes in the Islamic Middle East. The Turkish invasions played a role in provoking the Crusades, led to the collapse of Byzantine power in Anatolia and brought about the beginni…
Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Anatolia
The papers in this volume derive from a workshop held at the Orient-Institut Istanbul on 12-13 September 2014.
Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia
Three Arabic letters from North Sumatra of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
This article examines three Arabic documents, one from the Sultanate of Samudera-Pasai dated 1516, and two from the Sultanate of Aceh, dated 1602 and 1603, written in the name of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah (r.1589–1604). The Samudera-Pasai document represents the earliest surviving manuscript in the Arabic script from Southeast Asia, while the second and third letters are some of the earliest documents that have come down to us from the Aceh sul…
Seljuk Empire, Great
The Seljuk Empire (c.1038–1194) was a Muslim state that dominated much of the Middle East and Central Asia – in particular modern Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan – in the 11th and 12th centuries ce . Known after their ancestor Seljuk, the dynasty was ethnically Turkish and had been brought to power by invasions of nomadic Turks from Central Asia who had recently converted to Islam. From the second half of the 11th centur…
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