What was the early relationship between the Islamic world and the Turks of Central Asia? How did they interrelate with one another?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Early relationship between Islamic world and Turks
1. Turks had filtered into Islamic lands for centuries
a. slaves and soldiers, as individuals or in small bands
b. began to come in waves of migrants and invaders
2. once the shifts of population began, they ignited a kind of chain
reaction of the movement of migrant groups
3. Muslim reaction to Turks movement
a. called the Turks "the army of God" not in approval but in fear
b. God had unleashed these ferocious pagans to punish Muslims'
sins
c. viewed as warlike, pastoral
d. seemed more full of threat than promise
4. city of Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan
a. headquarters of the Seljuk Turks who overran Iran between the
1030s and the 1050s
b. one of Seljuk's brood seized Baghdad in 1055 and turned the
caliph into a client
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