Download or read book Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia written by Rudi Paul Lindner and published by Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies. This book was released on 1983 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudi Paul Linder examines the the impact of nomadism on early Ottoman history and challenges the conclusions of Paul Wittek's Rise of the Ottoman Empire, which defined the approaches of more than two generatios of scholars. Nomads and Ottomans in Medieval Anatolia offers a revealing study of pastoral nomads inhabiting the Anatolian plateau, the ways they met their needs, their threat to settled society, and how that society controlled them in the high Middle Ages.