Manzikert — Member Dossier (E-book, PDF)

Our free articles on this cluster look at the medieval Islamic world through power that had already settled into stone and trade: the Alhambra's courts in Nasrid Granada, the Great Mosque of Djenné on the edge of the Sahara, the caravans that carried salt and gold across it. This dossier turns to power in the middle of being made and unmade. On 26 August 1071, a Byzantine army led by the emperor himself was broken near the fortress of Manzikert, in eastern Anatolia, by the forces of the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan.

• 6 chapters, about 12400 words
• A chapter on what historians still argue about
• A chronology
• A reading list with the sources named
• PDF in A4 and US Letter

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