The image of "Turk" in İslamic sources with its changing status according to various periods

Image means the imagination of a person or an object in the mind of a person. For a nation, creating an image is not as simple as its definition because the image is influenced by all conditions of then-present periods. The perception of the Turk in the minds of people in Islamic World has been shaped and changed according to the positive or negative relations through time. It is worth mentioning now that the image of Turk in the Islamic World has not been created in natural ways. At first, the image against the Turks, which was used for reasons like keeping the Arabic World strong against a strong enemy, was broken after the Turks accepted Islam as a religion, and then a new "Turk Image" emerged by emphasizing the positive characteristics of Turks. With this study, purporsed to investigation of the "Turk Image" from the imagened journey on the mind of Islamic World and tried to understand and explain it. It started by studying and mentioning the interaction between the Turks and Arabs which dates back to the periods when Islam did not emerge. Then tried to searcing the question of "How the Turks has been seen from the window of Islamic World", and then provided information on the ancestries and tribes of the Turks and their lifestyles, their hometowns, religions, social and economic status.