The History of the Seljuq Turks from the Jāmiʻ Al-tawārīkh: An Ilkhanid Adaptation of the Saljūq-nāma of Ẓahīr Al-Dīn NīshāpūrīNishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the patterns of land utilisation in the northern tier of the Middle East. |
Contents
The Text | 15 |
Transliteration and Apparatus Criticus | 21 |
The Beginning of the Book | 29 |
Tughril Beg b Mīkāil | 39 |
Alp Arslan b Chaghri Beg | 49 |
Malik Shah b Alp Arslan | 59 |
Barkyaruq b Malik Shah | 65 |
Muḥammad b Malik Shah | 75 |
Sanjar b Malik Shah | 81 |
Maḥmūd b Muḥammad | 99 |
Masud b Muḥammad | 105 |
Malik Shah b Mahmud | 121 |
Sulayman Shah b Muḥammad | 137 |
Tughril b Arslan | 153 |
Bibliography | 177 |
Common terms and phrases
Abd al-Raḥmān Abu l-Qāsim affairs Aḥmad al-Dawla al-Mulk Abū Alī Alp Arslan Amir Chamberlain amirs army arrived Atabeg Ildiguz Ateş Azerbaijan Baghdad Barkyaruq battle became Bosworth brother brought Būz Aba Caliph castle Dāwūd defeated dynasty Fakhr fled Friday sermon gate of Hamadan gave Ghazna Ghaznavids Ghuzz Hamadan head horse Iraq Isfahan Islam Isrā'īl Jāmi al-tawārīkh Khan Khāṣṣ Beg Khitay Khurasan Khuzistan Khwārazm Shāh killed kings Maḥmūd Malik Muḥammad Malik Shah Marw Mazandaran Mu'ayyid al-Mulk Muḥammad Nāṣir Nishapur Nizām al-Mulk Pahlawan pavilion Persian plundered province Qara Qizil Qizil Arslan Qumāj Qutlugh Inanj Rāḥat Ramaḍān Rashid Rashid al-Din Rayy realm regions reign retinue ruler Sa'd Saljuq Saljuq-nāma Samanids Samarqand Sawa saying seized sent Shāh Shawwal slave Sulayman Shāh Sultan Mas'ud Sultan Muḥammad Sultan Sanjar Sultan Tughril Sunqur Supreme Sultan Tabriz Tarkan Tarkān Khātūn thousand dinars throne took Transoxania treasury troops Tughril Beg uncle victory Vizier