The Trip of a Medieval Physician
A Rare Description of Mobility in Mongol Anatolia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20080940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno De Nicola (0000-0003-2944-6949, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 181-200 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Microstructures and Mobility in the Byzantine World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | V&R unipress (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14220/9783737014977.181 |
| OpenAlex | W4391110421 |
| ISBN | 9783737014977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Following the consolidation of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rum in the second half of the twelfth century, Anatolia became ab orderland in which certain religious freedoms, economic opportunities, and cultural diversity made the region apole of attraction to religious leaders,intellectuals, and professionals from the wider Islamic world. 1 This context faciliated and stimulated mobility of goods, people, and ideas in and aroundthe peninsula.Hence, seen from the centrallands of the medieval Muslim world, this remote territory became ar efuge and al and of opportunity for people escaping conflict or seeking new economica nd professional prospects.The reasonsb ehind Anatolia becoming such an attractive location aremultiple.Traditionally, historiography has argued that Anatolia was the region where the last remaining Seljuq rulers offered refuge to people escaping the Mongol invasions of Central Asia, eastern Iran, and Russia in the 1220s.However, morer ecently, it has been suggestedt hat the impact of the Mongol advance does not explain the migrationo fl iterati and the sudden increase in court patronageexisting in the region from the late twelfth century. 2 It seems, therefore, that the Seljuq rulers created favourable conditions in Anatolia prior to the Mongol advance, which might haveincreased the number of people arriving, but is not the cause of the favourable conditions for mobility in thirteenth-century Anatolia.In fact, scholars and intellectuals did not only arriveinthe peninsula from the east, like the famous cases of the families of Jala ̄lal-Dı ̄nRu ̄mı ̄(d.1273) or Qut ̇b al-Dı ̄nShı ̄r a ̄z ı ̄(d.1311), but anumber of influential Muslim thinkers and per-1M adelung, Migration of Hanafi Scholars, 41-5; Khanbaghi, Champions, 179-98.For ac ase study of an Iranian family migrating to Anatolia and becoming important players on the Anatolian cultural scene, see Özergin, Selçuklu sanatçisi, 218-19.2E specially, but not only, during the reign of ʿIzz ad-Dı ̄nK ı l ı çArsla ̄nI I( r. 1156-92); see Peacock, Saljuqs III.For an overview of the migration of intellectuals from the Persianate world into Anatolia and other parts of the Islamic world such as Damascus or Baghdad in this period, see Bulliet, Islam
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |