VMs: Siyaqat...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've just had an email from Dr Colin Heywood, one of the top Western 
scholars on Ottoman history, who I contacted concerning more references to 
siyaqat more recent than Lajos Fekete's 1955 book. Unfortunately, his 
opinion is that Fekete "remains both irreplaceable and a monument of 
scholarship of a quality that is now hard to find", which more recent books 
fall well short of.

He did however suggest that I also look at his article on "Yarligh" (a type 
of decree) in the last volume of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. There's a 
(Mongol) definition of it here...
	http://hudce7.harvard.edu/~ostrowski/mm/iarlyk.pdf
...and some (non-contemporary) stories from Baghdad here...
	http://classes.yale.edu/99-00/hist325b/BaghDocs/Juvaini.htm

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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