Oghuz

One of the institutions of the Oghuz is a spectacular variation of the gift-giving system.

Triumph of a Heretic Knox, Bernard 1978

Thus, the Abbasid campaigns to quash the Sogdian rebels and their Oghuz Turk allies also became campaigns to preserve the purity of Islam.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 10 Islamic Sectarian Disputes and the Declaration of Jihads 2006

The Oghuz tribe of Eastern Turks, known as the Turks of White Dress, migrated at this point from modern-day Inner Mongolia to the northeastern corner of Sogdia, near Ferghana.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 6 Further Umayyad Expansion in West Turkistan 2006

The modern speakers of Turkic languages in this area speak either Turkish (and are there because of the Ottoman empire) or Gagauz (which is Oghuz, i.e. the same subgroup of Turkic that Turkic belongs to).

languagehat.com: DJAGFAR TARIHI. 2005

This situation was the outcome of a long process, beginning in the 11th century, by which Muslims, primarily western (Oghuz) Turks originating in central Asia, steadily broke through the Byzantine defenses and conquered Anatolia.

d. The Ottoman Empire 2001

THE SELJUKS were a leading family of the Oghuz Turks from central Asia, a nomadic tribal people who converted to Islam around the end of the 10th century.

1008 2001

In their original home their raiding expeditions were aimed at their neighbors to the north, the shamanistic Kipchaks; the Oghuz were recently converted Muslims (though sometimes pre-Islamic customs remain embedded in the narrative).

Triumph of a Heretic Knox, Bernard 1978

The Oghuz nomadic beys are given a nonexistent history; at the same time, the known participation of their descendants in major historical events is utterly ignored.

Triumph of a Heretic Knox, Bernard 1978

Periodically he invites them to sumptuous feasts, at which he "distributes the wealth of the Oghuz, usually in the form of gifts to the beys."

Triumph of a Heretic Knox, Bernard 1978

"No reference is made," say the translators, "to the well-known involvement of the Oghuz in the affairs of the Ghazmanide Dynasty… nor is there any mention whatever of the successive stages by which the Seljuks, of Oghuz origin, conquered Iran and most of Anatolia… during the remainder of the eleventh century."

Triumph of a Heretic Knox, Bernard 1978