The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.)

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The Breaking of a Thousand Swords provides a portrait of the Samarran Turks as members of a community with a specific and complex history in the early medieval Islamic world. It considers: the encounter of the Turks as rough, non-Muslim outsiders, with the sedentary, urbane world of Baghdad, the closely related encounter of the Turks with the Islamic tradition in its urban, scholarly guise, the settlement of the Turks, in Baghdad then in Samarra, through the use of land grants and appointments to office, the impact upon the affairs of the Turkish community of not only a military ranking but of a socio-political hierarchy as well, the construction by the Turkish elite of an elaborate network of patronage and support, both within urban Iraq and throughout the provinces (Egypt in particular), and the emergence, and impact, of factionalism within the community.

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