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. |
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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
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The History of the Seljuq Turks from the Jāmiʻ Al-tawārīkh: An Ilkhanid Adaptation of the Saljūq-nāma of Ẓahīr Al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī Studies in the history of Iran and Turkey |
| Authors | Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, Rašīd-ad-Dīn Faḍlallāh, Zahir al-Din Nishapuri, Ẓahīr-ad-Dīn Nīšāpūrī |
| Editors | Kenneth Allin Luther, Clifford Edmund Bosworth |
| Translated by | Kenneth Allin Luther |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0700713425, 9780700713424 |
| Length | 189 pages |
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