Reading Inscriptions on Seljuk Caravanserais

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_327
dc.contributor.author	Redford Scott
dc.title	Reading Inscriptions on Seljuk Caravanserais
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This essay concerns the foundation inscriptions of caravanserais built during the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the territories of the Anatolian Seljuk sultanate. It starts by examining their content and relates that to the hierarchy of the Seljuk sultanate in terms of building size and siting. It then addresses the idea of these inscriptions not as markers of patron, date, and other synchronic data, but as symbols of the power of the dynasty in a land where the language in which they were written, Arabic, was not widely read. Finally, this essay entertains the idea that there were circumstances for certain caravanserai inscriptions being read (and understood), proposing some instances in which Seljuk caravanserai inscriptions can be thought of as having had a readership beyond that of those who commissioned or wrote them. In conclusion, it reexamines one caravanserai inscription, proposing a new reading and date.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasiatica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-07-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-086-0/reading-inscriptions-on-seljuk-caravanserais/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-085-3/EUR-4-13
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-086-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-085-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Hierarchy
dc.subject	Hierarchy
dc.subject	Inscriptions
dc.subject	Inscriptions
dc.subject	Rum Seljuk caravanserais
dc.subject	Rum Seljuk caravanserais
dc.subject	Sertavul Han
dc.subject	Sertavul Han

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Reading Inscriptions on Seljuk Caravanserais

Scott Redford SOAS, London, UK

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This essay concerns the foundation inscriptions of caravanserais built during the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the territories of the Anatolian Seljuk sultanate. It starts by examining their content and relates that to the hierarchy of the Seljuk sultanate in terms of building size and siting. It then addresses the idea of these inscriptions not as markers of patron, date, and other synchronic data, but as symbols of the power of the dynasty in a land where the language in which they were written, Arabic, was not widely read. Finally, this essay entertains the idea that there were circumstances for certain caravanserai inscriptions being read (and understood), proposing some instances in which Seljuk caravanserai inscriptions can be thought of as having had a readership beyond that of those who commissioned or wrote them. In conclusion, it reexamines one caravanserai inscription, proposing a new reading and date.

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978-88-6969-086-0

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978-88-6969-085-3

Keywords: Rum Seljuk caravanserais • Hierarchy • Inscriptions • Sertavul Han

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-085-3/EUR-4-13

Copyright: © 2016 Scott Redford. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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