A. C. S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, editors. The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East.

A pioneering study on the Seljuks of Anatolia reveals that the Rūm Seljuk principality, unlike its Great Seljuk counterpart, lacked substantial Muslim scholarly and literary output, relying instead on non-Muslim sources such as Byzantine Greek and Armenian materials, epigraphy, architecture, and numismatics. The research distinguishes between the two entities, emphasizing the importance of para-historical evidence due to the scarcity of traditional Islamic sources. Key findings include the late survival of ancient Turkic titles among the Mengüjek branch in Divriği and the inflation of Seljuk titulature as Byzantine territories were absorbed. The study also highlights the role of Christian wives in Seljuk court life, the influence of Sufi orders in legitimizing royal power, and the unique phenomenon of futuwwa in Armenian communities. This work sets a benchmark for future research on this understudied region.

Bosworth, C. E. (2014). A. C. S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, editors. The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East. The American Historical Review, 119(3), 1016–1018. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.3.1016