3 books
Osman Karatay is a historian and academic whose studies connect early Eurasian peoples, languages, and the political formations of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The Genesis of the Turks - An Ethno-Linguistic Inquiry into the Prehistory of Central Eurasia offers the broadest route into his method, bringing historical and linguistic evidence into the same inquiry. In Search of the Lost Tribe The Origins and Making of the Croatian Nation narrows that comparative approach to Croatian ethnogenesis and the competing explanations around it. Ba'de Harabi'l Bosna turns toward Bosnia through a distinct historical frame. Readers interested in Karatay's larger argument should take The Genesis of the Turks first, then use In Search of the Lost Tribe to see how he handles a more bounded origin problem. The Bosnia volume supplies a regional counterpoint rather than a continuation of the same thesis.
