The Influences of Women on Management in the Turkey Seljuk State: Until the Mongol Invasion TÜRKİYE SELÇUKLU DEVLETİ’NDE KADINLARIN YÖNETİM ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİLERİ: MOĞOL İSTİLASINA KADAR


ALTINAY R., Esra Çeçen D. Ö.

History Studies, cilt.15, sa.2, ss.347-359, 2023 (Scopus, TRDizin)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 15 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.9737/hist.2023.1135
  • Dergi Adı: History Studies
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.347-359
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Turkey Seljuk State, Woman/Melike, Political Marriage, Management, & Idot;mpacts on Power
  • Uşak Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In the Turkey Seljuk State as a result of the made political marriages, women managed to have a say in the state management in the places they went, contributed to the defense of the country when necessary, made efforts to make their own sons sultan after the death of their spouses, or ensured that the people they married became the new rulers of the region they were in. Melikes ambitions for power sometimes brought the states in which they were in to the brink of collapse, and sometimes they saved them from collapse with clever and strategic political interventions. In this article, it has been studied to give information about the effects of the melikes playing an effective role in the state administration through the political marriages in the Turkey Seljuk State on the political history of this state. The introductory section of the research gives information on the status and significance of women in the Turkey Seljuk State. Next, the effects of women on power in the former Turkish states is explained, and with which principalities and states the Great Seljuk and Turkey Seljuk States established kinship by making political marriages. Then, information was given about the impact of women on power in the Turkey Seljuk State and as a conclusion of the research, it was detected that women in the Turkey Seljuk State, as well as in the pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Turkish states, played an active role in power and signed important political events.