Золотоордынское обозрение (Sep 2016)
On the Book by A.N. Kurat “Turkic Tribes and States in the Volga and Northern Black Sea Regions in the 4th–18th centuries” (Collected Writings”. Book 2) »
Abstract
Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences continues to publish the works of the famous Tatar-Turkish historian Akdes Nigmet Kurat. There has been published the second book “Turkic Tribes and States in the Volga and Northern Black Sea Regions in the 4th–18th centuries”. This work is the result of years of academic study and research by A.N. Kurat. Despite the fact that the book had been published in Turkey in 2002 this Russian edition will be of great help in the studies of modern Russian historians since the book is written with the use of a large number of Eastern and Western sources inaccessible to Russian researchers. The book covers a great period of history since the ancient one where the author tried to reconstruct the history of the Turks before the times of formation and functioning of the post-Horde Tatar khanates. The book consists of 14 chapters and appendixes containing not only the well-known travel notes by Ibn Fadlan, excerpts from Russian chronicles, notes by Ibn Battuta, but also documentary materials of correspondence between the Crimean khans and sultans of the Ottoman Empire. In conclusion, the author also applies the genealogies of dynasties: “khans of Volga Bulgaria”, “Golden Horde khans”, “Kazan khans”, “Crimean khans”, “Astrakhan khans”. It should be noted that A.N. Kurata tried to consider the relatively wide range of issues relating to the history of the Tatar people, which again confirms the need to study the works of this outstanding scholar and historian well-known in the academic works of Turkey and Europe.
