Search Results for “saljuqs”

• SALJUQS iii. SALJUQS OF RUM

  Andrew Peacock

  dynasty of Turkish origin that ruled much of Anatolia (Rum), ca. 1081-1308.

• SALJUQS vi. ART AND ARCHITECTURE

  Lorenz Korn

  The Saljuq period can be regarded as an epoch in which Islamic art and architecture in Persia reached maturity, i.e., in which techniques were developed and formal solutions were established that lasted for centuries to come.

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• SALJUQS v. SALJUQID LITERATURE

  Daniela Meneghini

  The term ‘Saljuqid literature’is used here to refer to literary works in Persian produced between 432/1040 and 617/1220.

• ARSLĀN B. ṬOḠREL

  Cross-Reference

  See SALJUQS OF IRAQ (pending).

• ARSLĀNŠĀH B. KERMĀNŠĀH

  Cross-Reference

  See SALJUQS OF KERMĀN.

• ARSLĀNŠAH B. TOḠRELŠĀH

  Cross-Reference

  See SALJUQS OF KERMĀN.

• BAHRĀMŠĀH B. ṬOḠRELŠĀH

  Cross-Reference

  See SALJUQS OF KERMĀN.

• ĀḠĀJĪ

  ʿA. Zaryāb

  title of a court official in the administrations of the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs.

• ATĀBAK

  C. Cahen

  Turkish atabeg, lit. “father-chief,” a Turkish title of rank which first appears, at least under this name, with the early Saljuqs.

• GOWHAR-ĀʾĪN, Saʿd-al-dawla

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  (d. 1100), Turkish eunuch slave commander of the Great Saljuqs.

• BEGTOḠDÏ

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  Turkish slave com­mander of the Ghaznavid sultans Maḥmūd and Masʿūd (d. 1040).

• AMĪRAK BAYHAQĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  (d. 448/1056), intelligence officer in Khorasan under the early Ghaznavids.

• ABŪ MANṢŪR FARĀMARZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  eldest son of the Kakuyid amir of Jebāl, ʿAlāʾ-al-dawla Moḥammad b. Došmanzīār.

• ANŪŠTIGIN ḠARČAʾĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Turkish slave commander of the Saljuqs; in the late 11th century, he bore the traditional title of Ḵᵛārazmšāh.

• ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ

  Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

   fl. 5th/11th century, a courtier and man of letters under the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs; himself a poet, he patronized poetry generously.

• ḎU’L-QADR

  Pierre Oberling

  (arabicized form of Turk. Dulgadır), a Ḡozz tribe that became established mainly in southeastern Anatolia under the Saljuqs.

• AḤMAD B. NEẒĀM-AL-MOLK

  C. E. Bosworth

  (d. 1149-50), son of the well-known Saljuq vizier (d. 485/1092) and himself vizier for the Great Saljuqs and then for the ʿAbbasid caliphs. 

• BESṬĀMĪ family

  Richard W. Bulliet

  leading family among the Shafeʿites of Nīšāpūr from the late 4th/10th through the early 6th/12th century.

• ČĀŠNĪGĪR

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  literally “taster” (Pers. čāšnī “taste”), the official who at the court of Turkish dynasties in Iran and elsewhere, from the Saljuq period onwards, had the responsibility of tasting the ruler’s food and drink in order to ensure that it was not poisoned.

• ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN, ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  b. Solṭān-al-Dawla Abū Šojāʿ (1009-48), amir of the Buyid dynasty in the period of that family’s decadence and incipient disintegration, being the last effective ruler of the line.

• ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD, ABŪ MANṢŪR

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid sultan, r. 441-44/1050-53.

• ABŪ NAṢR MOSTAWFĪ

  K. A. Luther

  well-known official of the Saljuqs of Iraq.

• ʿALĪ B. FARĀMARZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  member of the Deylamī dynasty of the Kakuyids (d. 1095).

• ČAḠRĪ BEG DĀWŪD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  b. Mīḵāʾīl b. Saljūq, Abū Solaymān, a member of the Saljuqs, the leading family of the Oghuz Turks, who with his brother Ṭoḡrel (Ṭoḡrïl) Beg founded the Great Saljuq dynasty in Persia in the 5th/11th century.

• ÏNĀNČ ḴĀTUN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  wife of the Atābeg Jahān-Pahlavān Moḥammad (r. 1175-86), the Eldigüzid (or Ildegizid) ruler in Arrān, most of Azerbaijan, and then Jebāl.

• BAHRĀMĪ SARAḴSĪ

  Z. Safa

  ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ, Persian poet and literary scholar, one of the many at the court at Ḡazna in the reigns of Sultan Maḥmūd (r. 998-1030) and his sons.

• ALTUNTAŠ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Turkish slave commander of the Ghaznavid sultans and governor in Ḵᵛārazm (408-23/1017-32). 

• JAND

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  a medieval Islamic town on the right bank of the lower Jaxartes in Central Asia some 350 km from where the river enters the Aral Sea.

• DARGAZĪNĪ

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  nesba (attributive name) for Dargazīn (or Darjazīn), borne by several viziers of the Great Saljuqs in the 12th century.

• AḤMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid official and vizier, d. ca. 434/1043.

• AḴBĀR AL-DAWLAT AL-SALJŪQĪYA

  C. E. Bosworth

  An Arabic chronicle on the history of the Great Saljuq dynasty in Iran and Iraq.

• BAHRĀMŠĀH B. MASʿŪD (III)

  C. E. Bosworth

  B. EBRĀHĪM, ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR, Ghaznavid sultan in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern India (r. 1117-1157?).

• EBN DĀROST, MAJD-AL-WOZARĀʾ MOḤAMMAD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  b. Manṣūr (d. Ahvā, 1074), vizier to the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qāʾem from 9 May 1061 to 9 December 1062.

• FARROḴZĀD, ABŪ ŠOJĀʿ

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  b. Masʿūd b. Maḥmūd, Ghaznavid sultan of Afghanistan and northern India (r. 1052-59).

• ʿANBARĪ, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS

  C. E. Bosworth

  4th-5th/10th-11th century poet and prose stylist of Khorasan and statesman in the service of the Qarakhanids.

• MASʿUD (III) B. EBRĀHIM

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  recorded on his coins with various other honorifics. He seems to have had generally peaceful relations with his western neighbors, the Great Saljuqs.

• KONDORI, MOḤAMMAD B. MANṢUR

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  (b. ca. 1024, d. 1064), vizier to Ṭoḡrel Beg (r. 1040-63), the first sultan of the Great Saljuqs, and, briefly, to Ṭoḡrel’s successor Alp Arslān (r. 1063-72).

• MUSĀ YABḠU

  Osman G. Özgüdenli

  the eponymous strongman of a Ḡozz clan, whose nephew Toḡrel founded the Saljuq dynasty.

• DEZKŪH

  Farhad Daftary

  or Šāhdez; a medieval mountain fortress situated in central Persia on the summit of Mount Ṣoffa, about 8 km south of Isfahan.

• FARḠĀNĪ, SAYF-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  Sayyāra Mahīnfar

  thirteenth century Persian poet and Sufi of Farḡāna.

• ANBARĪĀN FAMILY

  C. E. Bosworth

  a distinguished family of officials, littérateurs, ʿolamāʾ, and traditionists from Bayhaq (modern Sabzavār).

• MAWDUD B. MASʿUD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty, recorded on his coins with the honorifics Šehāb-al-Din wa’l-Dawla and Qoṭb-al-Mella.

• IL-ARSLĀN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  Chorasmian king of the line of Anuštegin Ḡarčaʾi (r. 1156-72). He was the son and successor of ʿAlāʾ-Din Atsïz b. Moḥammad, , who had skillfully preserved the autonomy of Chorasmia.

• DANDĀNQĀN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  a small town of medieval Khorasan, in the Qara Qum, or sandy desert, between Marv and Saraḵs, 10 farsaḵs from the former, on which it was administratively dependent.

• ḤĀJEB i. IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PERIOD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  The office of ḥājeb, implying military command, appears in the Iranian world with the Samanids, where it probably grew out of the amir’s domestic household.

• GENÇOSMAN, MEHMED NURÎ

  Tahsın Yazici

  (b. Ağın district of Elazığ, 1897; d. Istanbul, 1976), Turkish poet and translator of Persian works.

• EV-OḠLĪ, ḤAYDAR BEG

  K. Allin Luther

  or Īv-ōḡlī, b. Abu’l-Qāsem, a court official of the later Safavid period.

• MOʿEZZI NIŠĀBURI

  Hormoz Davarpanah

  (ca. 1048/49-ca. 1125/27), Abu ʿAbd-Allāh Moḥammad, a major poet at the court of the Saljuqs in Khorasan in the 12th century.

• EBRĀHĪM B. MASʿŪD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  b. Maḥmūd b. Sebüktegīn, Abu’l-Moẓaffar, Ẓahīr-al-Dawla, Rażī-al-Dīn, etc., Ghaznavid sultan (r. 1059-99). 

• MOʾAYYED AY-ABA

  Maryam Kamali

  a slave, promoted to to the commander of the army of the Saljuqid king, Sultan Sanjar, who ruled in Nišāpur (r. 1168-74) in his name.