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- Title
Khargāh: an inquiry into the spread of the “Turkish” trellis tent within the 'Abbāsid world up to the Saljūq conquest (mid second/eighth–early fifth/eleventh centuries).
- Authors
Durand-Guédy, David
- Abstract
The Persian term khargāh is first attested at the beginning of the fourth/tenth century. It has often been translated as “hut” or “pavilion”, but a comprehensive overview of the historical, geographical and poetic sources points to a more precise definition. Three main conclusions can be established. First, from the beginning the term exclusively referred to the trellis tent (commonly known as yurt) first identified in a Turkic milieu in Inner Asia. Second, khargāh entered the Arabic and Persian languages through the Sāmānid court and quickly replaced the Arabic expression al-qubba al-turkiyya which was previously used to refer to this kind of tent. Third, the presence of the trellis tent in Muslim courts predates the arrival of the nomadic Saljuqs in the fifth/eleventh century. The trellis tent, associated with the cloth enclosure (or sarāparda), was already a status symbol under the Sāmānids and Būyids in the fourth/tenth century. Thus this study, which lies at the crossroads of lexicography and the history of technology, provides new elements towards a better understanding of Central Asian cultural influence on the wider ‘Abbāsid world.
- Subjects
OLD Persian language; PERSIAN language; SAMANID dynasty, 9th-10th centuries; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; LEXICOGRAPHY
- Publication
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 2016, Vol 79, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0041-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0041977X16000021