books.google.com - From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and transported Persian culture...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Age_of_the_Seljuqs.html?id=ML2bBQAAQBAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Age of the Seljuqs