title: 18 Political Genealogies in the Sixteenth Century
abstract: The political implications of the Oghuzian theme for all the Turkmen powers in the fifteenth century are by now a familiar theme. After tie pioneer studies by Paul Wittek who pointed to a romantic revival of steppe traditions, while acknowledging the political aims which the Oghuzian tribal genealogy clearly served, Halil nalck put the Ottoman interest in Oghuzian matters in the perspective of the fateful defeat of _ 1402. Struggling for the survival of their state, the Ottomans ~ad to show them