Koni: La ville des derviches tourneurs
Souvenirs d'un voyage en Asie Mineure

An engaging 1897 account of a French scholar's observations and impressions on a research trip to Seljuk sites in Turkey.

Clément Huart (Author)

9781108042192, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 December 2011

290 pages, 21 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.37 kg

Clément Huart (1854–1926) graduated in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Modern Greek and served as a French diplomat in Istanbul (or, as he called it, Constantinople) for twenty years before becoming Professor of Persian at the Ecole des Langues Orientales in Paris. He edited and translated many oriental texts and published widely on Middle-Eastern cultures. This 1897 publication describes a visit to Konya, where Huart hoped to find out more about the capital of the Seljuk Empire than was recorded in Byzantine or Persian sources. Travelling on horseback from Istanbul, Huart noted his impressions of archaeological sites and historic buildings, and recorded details of many inscriptions from the Seljuk period on mosques, mausoleums, caravanserais and fortresses. He also met the whirling dervishes. His fascinating account of his experiences is interwoven with references to medieval battles and Islamic legends, together with advice for future travellers to this rapidly modernising region.

Préface
1. De Constantinople à Brousse
2. La plaine de Brousse
3. La marche des Croisés de Nicée à Dorylée
4. La route des Croisés après la bataille
5. Afyoun Kara-Hiçâr
6. Arghut-Khané
7. Konia
8. Panorama de Konia
9. Le mausolée du Chéïkh Sadr-eddin Koniéwi
10. Ce qui reste d'antiquités romaines et grecques
11. Les philosophes mystiques du XIIIe siècle
12. Coup d'oeil sur la civilisation de l'Asie Mineure au XIIIe siècle
13. Dernière excursion dans la plaine de Konia
14. La même route parcourue à rebours
15. En train de marchandises
Itinéraires
Généalogie des sultans seldjoukides de Roum
Généalogie de la dynastie des Karaman
Inscriptions grecques qui n'ont pas été inséréees dans la relation du voyage.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]