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- Title
MÜNŞİ İSKENDER BEY'E GÖRE XVII. YÜZYILDA İRAN SAHASINDA TÜRKLER, TÜRKMENLER VE KIZILBAŞLAR.
- Authors
GÜNDÜZ, Tufan
- Abstract
Alam-ârâ-ye Abbasî by Eskandar Beg Torkaman Monshi comprises of not only wide knowledge of history but also of language, cultural, social, After he served in the army for a while, he was engaged in bureaucracy and be assigned as a Monshi. The thing that made his work precious is that besides narrating the events he witnessed or was himself involved in, he dealt with many records due to his position and he reflected those into his works either directly or indirectly. His being very careful in writing history is attached importance due to his attention in the political, religious, army and ethnical issues. He was a Turk in terms of ethnicity, a qizilbash as he was in Safavid army, and a Turkman as a title. According to Eskandar Beg's narration, being a qizilbash meant being a Turk at the same time. The ritual and traditions of Qizilbashes described their virtues. The loyalty for the state and shah within the rigid Sufi principles was the fundamental principle of being a qizilbash. The name Turkmen is used to refer to, on the one hand, those who became safavid and qizilbash originating the state of Aqqoyunlu and on the other hand, refer to identify the Sunni Turkmen living in the southwest of the Caspian Sea. The fact that both do not mix with each other is well understood by the way the events occurred. Although Eskandar Beg wrote his work in Persian, he distinguishes the Turks and Turkish identity throughout his work. Besides this he identified Iranian community as Turk and Tajik (Persian) and stressed that these are the local elements of Iran.
- Publication
Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies / HÜTAD Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Arastirmalari Dergisi, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 22, p121
- ISSN
1305-5992
- Publication type
Article