Professor Peter B. Golden Professor Emeritus of History Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at
Rutgers University is an outstanding historian and orientalist in the field of medieval
Eurasian studies. His achievement regarding the history of the Turkic speaking peoples and the
medieval history of Eastern Europe is fundamental.Osman Karatay and István Zimonyi have edited
the Festschrift in which 32 leading experts from all over the world have paid tribute to Peter
B. Golden's scientific achievement. Among the authors are Thomas Allsen Farda Asadov
Christopher I. Beckwith Edmund Bosworth Éva Á. Csató and Lars Johanson Devin DeWeese
Anatoly M. Khazanov Roman Kovalev Ruth Meserve Uli Shamiloglu Victor Spinei Isenbike Togan
and István Vásáry.
