ABSTRACT
The military interventions of the Mongols in Asia Minor do not seem to have ended in the ruin of towns as had happened in Iran and Central Asia, and indeed at Baghdad. Kayseri, pillaged in 1243, returned almost to what it had been, and perhaps only the small Turcoman towns on the periphery suffered from the campaign of Geikhatu at the end of the century. Mongol rule may have modified to some extent the order of importance of some cities by drawing the political chiefs towards the east; so Kayseri and Sivas gained a little importance, while Konya lost a little. The role of the ahis in the defence of Konya against the Karamanids and Cimri are not presented in the same way in the extant accounts, and may moreover not have been uniform. Ahi Evrân is a particularly illustrative example of the duality of manifestations throughout the futuwwa which has already been stressed.
