", "I delight to tell you what happened to us during LentThe Turks collected an army, fell suddenly upon our two leaders and forced them into a perilous flight. Sultan al-Dawla: 40312: 101221 The Seljuks, nomadic tribesman in origin, invaded the Middle East in the 11th century and established themselves as sultans in the Islamic tradition. Portuguese Empire Type of Government. Suqman Shahs: 493604: 11001207 Questions or comments, e-mail ajhays98@yahoo.com, Horsemen, Mongols and the Silk Road - Turks and the Ottoman Empire, shapell.org/historical-perspectives/exhibitions, archive.org/details/horsewheelandlanguage. Seljuk Empire. The Seljuk Empire was an empire of the Seljuk Turks and a Muslim dynasty. He treated the captive Emperor with courtesy, and when the ransom money was paid sent him home with a Turkish escort. Many Crusaders had little interst in reaching the Holy Land; they were more interested in raping and pillaging along the way. Notable Sultans like Alp Arslan who won battle of Malazgirt in 1071. . American Travelers to the Holy Land in the 19th Century Shapell Manuscript Foundation shapell.org/historical-perspectives/exhibitions ; The main branch of the Seljuk house, the so-called Great Seljuks, maintained control over Iran. The Great Seljuk Sultanate was based in Iran, Iraq, and central Asia from between about 10401157. It never developed into a Papacy, for the interpretation of the law and the faith had long passed to the ulama, the canonists and judges. The conquest of much of the Middle East by the Seljuks, who founded an empire extending from Central Asia to the Mediterranean, influenced inter alia the situation of its Jewish subjects.. The society and economy of the Anatolian countryside were unchanged by the Seljuks, who had simply replaced Byzantine officials with a new elite that was Turkish and Muslim. cAla' al-Din Tekish: 567: 1172 Nur al-Din Arslan Shah I: 589607: 11931211 Large parts of coastal Anatolia remained in the hands of various Christian rulers (Trebizond on the northern coast, Cilicia on the southern coast, and Nicaea on the western coast), and the piece that the Seljuks controlled was most of the central and southeastern part, including parts of what is today the states of Syria and Iraq. But the Byzantine revival had now spent itself: the vigorous Macedonian dynasty was no more; the central government was in conflict with the great landed families of Asia Minor and in order to reduce their power, had cut down the military establishment, thereby rendering the Empire defensively weak against the new assault from the East. They are most famous for their invasions and battles against the Byzantine Empire and later their role in the First Crusade. Sayf al-Din Ghazi I: 54144: 114649 Anushtigin Gharcha'i: ca. The leader married a daughter of Chinese group who united with Turks to break the Juan Juans. SELJUKS (Arab.Saljq), dynasty of Turkic origin which ruled *Iran and the surrounding countries in the 11 th and 12 th centuries. Their conceptions of government were primitive, and despite the efforts of Nizam al-Mulk to instruct them in the principles of ancient Persian despotism, which he regarded as the only satisfactory form of rule, they treated their realm as family property to be divided up among sons and nephews, who if minors were entrusted to the care of atabegs ('father-chiefs'), usually generals of servile origin who governed their appanages until their wards came of age and who often became hereditary princes in their own right. "IX The Turkish Irruption" \=], Seljuk Alp Arslan humiliating the Byzantine Emporer Romanus. HamdanidAleppo: 333394: 9451004 Many more died of starvation and thirst on the Turkish steppes when the Turks fell back, destroying crops and blocking wells as they went. Split by dissension among the tribes, one branch of the Oguz, led by descendants of Seljuk, moved west and entered service with the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad. The Seljuks emerged at a time when the Bagdad caliphate was weak and the Muslim world was in chaos and was made a number of shifting independent states that fought among themselves with none eing able to establish dominance until the Seljuks came along. The Seljuks proceeded to unify the Muslim world again by conquering Iraq and eastern Asia Minor. cImad al-Din Marzuban: 41940: 102848 cIzz al-Din Mascud II: 60715: 121118 Dhu-l-Qadrid: 738928: 13371552 Ghiyath al-Din Mascud II (1st reign): 68183: 128284 Konya fell to the crusaders, and after a few years of campaigning Byzantine rule was restored in the western third of Anatolia. The first great state which carried the name Turk was the Kok-Turk State which extended from Manchuria to the Black Sea and Iran between the A.D. 6th and 8th centuries. States like Venice grew rich selling silks, perfumes and spices and bankers in Italy grew rich financing the purchase of these items for clerics, popes, kings and nobles. HamdanidMosul: 317391: 9271000 Ruler, Muslim dates A.H., Christian dates A.D. It was now the Sultan's duty to act as the early Caliphs had done, to defend the umma, to extirpate schism and heresy, and to resume the jihad against the nations who rejected God and his Prophet. The crusaders wore clothes stitched with crosses and mussel shells, and one of the main leaders was Duke Godfrey of Belgium. When Tughril died childless in 1063, the Sultanate passed to his nephew Alp Arslan ('hero lion'), Chagri's son, who was probably anxious to divert the stream of nomadic violence away from the lands of Islam towards Christendom and at the same time to win glory as a ghazi, or champion of the faith. Such Turkmen tribes had converted to Sunni Islam in the 10th century. At their height, the Seljuk sultan had himself invested as emperor by the caliph of Baghdad. cAla' al-Din Kay Qubadh III (1st reign): 683: 1284 Mahmud of Ghazna had been glad to win recognition from the Caliph, and his court poets had hailed him as 'Sultan', a word meaning originally 'governmental power' but henceforth used as a personal title. Burid: 497549: 11041154, ZangidMosul: 521619: 11271222 J.J. Saunders wrote in A History of Medieval Islam: In fact, Manzikert struck a fatal blow at Christian and imperial power in Anatolia. The territorial acquisitions of large parts of Anatolia by the Seljuks incurred the wrath of many Christians in Western and Eastern Europe. THE SELJUK PERIOD. The Abbasid caliph, al-Qa'im, awarded the Seljuk leader Toghril Beg the title sultan for his assistance against a Shi'a adversary. The political was based on the Islam laws, the government was militar. Ramadanid: 780819: 13781416 The Great Seljuk Empire, or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, culturally Turko-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, founded and ruled by the Qnq branch of Oghuz Turks. Finally in 1060 the Seljuks fought their way back into Baghdad; Basasiri was killed, and Tughril replaced the Abbasid on his throne. Ghiyath al-Din Kay Khusraw I (2nd reign): 6017: 120410 Seafaring contingents from England, Italy and Flanders, arrived in Syria in 1098. It spanned a total area of 3.9 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central . Majd al-Dawla Rustam: 387420: 9971029 The Seljuq/Seljuk empire was founded by Tughril Beg (1016-1063) in 1037. SeljuqSyria: 471511: 10781117 BuyidcUman: 363388: 974998 The Seljuk Empire was an empire of the Seljuk Turks and a Muslim dynasty. (Ottoman is derived from Uthman, the Arabic form of Osman.) What was the culture of the Seljuk empire? Crusaders returned to Europe with spices and perfumes, knowledge of a world outside their own and a taste for the exotic. The local power of Atabegs also accelerated the collapse of the Seljuk empire. The history of Seljuks in another post-Islam era in Iran that begins with Togrul Beg and his brother, Chaghri Beg. They lost much of the eastern part of their empire to Khwarezm in 1194, and the Mongols finished off the Seljuk remnant kingdom in Anatolia in the 1260s. Dynasty, Ruler, Muslim dates A.H., Christian dates A.D. Sayf al-Din Ghazi II: 56472: 116976 [Source: J.J. Saunders, A History of Medieval Islam, (London: Routledge, 1965), chap. The Seljuks in Konya surrendered and submitted to the Mongols and after that lost their hold in Anatolia and disappeared from history. Eretnaid: 736782: 13351380 Independent Greek kingdoms were established at Nicaea and Trebizond (present-day Trabzon) and in Epirus from remnant Byzantine provinces. 0 Reviews. World Religions edited by Geoffrey Parrinder (Facts on File Publications, New York); Arab News, Jeddah; Islam, a Short History by Karen Armstrong; A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (Faber and Faber, 1991); Encyclopedia of the World Cultures edited by David Levinson (G.K. Hall & Company, New York, 1994). The cleavage widened, however, between the unruly gazi warriors and the state-building bureaucracy in Konya. His armies pushed into the valleys of Armenia and Georgia, while the Turkomans plunged deeper and deeper into Anatolia. Mucizz al-Din Sanjar: 51152: 111857 The executioner, disguised as a holy man, stabbed the vizier with a dagger while he was being carried on his litter to his harem. Mamluk, also spelled Mameluke, slave soldier, a member of one of the armies of slaves established during the Abbasid era that later won political control of several Muslim states. Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of country or topic discussed in the article. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. As the ancestors of the western Turks, they blended the cultures and created the hybrid ethos that you can still observe in modern Turkey. At its peak, the Seljuk Empire covered areas from western Anatolia, the Levant, and many areas in Central Asia. It was founded by Tughril Beg in 1037. Seljuk and Duqaq revolted against Khazar apparently in conjunction with a successful attack by the Rus' in 965 which ended the Khazar state. The crossword clue possible answer is available in 4 letters. Name: _____ Date: _____Period: _____ Unit 1, Topic 1.2: Developments in the Dar al-Islam from c. 1200 - c. 1450 AMSCO pgs. Part 2 examines social history, particularly with regard to the 'ulama' and the urban populations. The Alid Caliphate, though shorn of much of its glory, was put on its feet again and enabled to survive for another century. The hope was vain: the tribesmen began raiding all over northern Persia and holding towns to ransom. cUqaylid: 380489: 9901096 In 1070 the Seljuks took Syria from the Fatimids and entered Byzantine territory. Samsam al-Dawla Marzuban: 38088: 99098 How did the Seljuk Empire maintain power? "IX The Turkish Irruption" \=]. Asia Minor and Turkey The Egypt-based Fatimids were also rivals of the Seljuks: J.J. Saunders wrote in A History of Medieval Islam: The Fatimid regime had, in fact made a surprising recovery from what had seemed certain ruin. This became most apparent during the Crusaders, when European invaders were able to move relatively easily through Seljuk territory because local amirs were preoccupied with fighting each other. From migratory people, they transformed into conquerors that gave unity in the Middle East for a time. Part 1 follows the gradual transformation of the Seljuqs into a powerful dynasty and their concepts of political legitimisation. Among the most important of these overlapping dynasties were the Tahirids in Khorasan (820-72); the Saffarids in Sistan (867-903); and the Samanids (875-1005), originally at Bukhara (also cited as Bokhara). Establishment of castles during the Crusades helped make the Mediterranean safe for European vessels. Qarakhanid: 382607: 9921222 up cAdud al-Dawla Alp-Arslan: 45565: 106372 Thirdly, the Abbasid Caliphate was restored to some sort of life and independence, but its character was changed, and a new institution -- the Sultanate -- was created in an endeavour to reestablish the political unity of Islam. The Russians lumped the Mongols, Tatar and Turks together and called them "Tatars.". Edinburgh University Press, Jan 23, 2015 - History - 378 pages. In Iraq power was held by the Buyid general Basasiri, who asked for help from Cairo in order to stop the advance of the Seljuks by declaring for the Fatimids. Sacd al-Dawla Sharif I: 35681: 96791 It was founded by Tughril Beg in 1037. Absolution from sin and eternal glory were promised to the Crusaders, who also hoped to gain land and wealth in the East. Count Stephen of Blois wrote in March 1099: "We found the city of Antioch very extensively fortified with the greatest strength and almost impossible to be taken. ZangidJazira: 576648: 11801250, Begteginid: 539630: 11451233 The Crusades gave trade during the Middle Ages a big push. This empire had trade links with China, Iran and the Byzantines and left behind inscriptions and an unusual alphabet on stones in Mongolia. Conversion to Islam and the imposition of the language, mores, and customs of the Turks progressed steadily in the countryside, facilitated by intermarriage. The Seljuk empire was founded by Tughril Beg (1016-63) in 1037. SELJUK EMPIRE The Seljuk Empire's Administration The Seljuk Empire's Administration Introduction The Seljuk dynasty is counted as the first work of development and expansion of the Turkish nomadic tribe belonging to Central Asia. Within fifty years, the Seljuks created a vast though relatively short-lived empire, encompassing all of Iran, Iraq, and much of Anatolia. Seljuk Basic Data Religion Sunni Culture Turkmeni (Oghuz) Tech Group Middle Eastern (until 650) Muslim (since 650) Government Autocracy Government Rank Kingdom Country Development 69 (start) Capital Province Nishapur (436) (until 1043) Rey (428) (1043 - 1051) Isfahan (429) (1051 - 1118) Hamadan (414) (since 1118) Technical Data Tag SEL Scholars, pilgrims, and merchants used the ancient Silk Road and other transportation networks to maintain contact. Marwanid: 372478: 9831085 1028 With the help of the Crusaders of the First Crusade, Byzantine was able to win back much of the territory lost to the Seljuks. It ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to the 14th centuries. By the early 12th century, the Seljuks were masters of most of Afghanistan, Persia and the Middle East as far west as Egypt. Dynasty, Ruler, Muslim dates A.H., Christian dates A.D. In his humanity and generosity he anticipates Saladin. Nizamiye Madrasas are build as a state universities. Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad I: 498511: 110518 The Turks drove towards the Byzantine frontiers, partly by design, partly by accident. Armenians, Georgians, Abbasids, Qarakhanids and Gaznawids were now the vassals of the Seljuk sultans. The Seljuks adopted and developed various institutions of military . Ruler, Muslim dates A.H., Christian dates A.D. cImad al-Dawla cAli: 32035: 93247 With Asia Minor, its principal source of soldiers and revenue, lost, menaced by the aggression of the Normans from Italy and the Pechenegs from across the Danube, the Byzantine Empire faced total ruin, and appeals for help to the Pope and the Latin world went out from Constantinople which produced twenty-five years after Manzikert the preaching of the First Crusade. Called away by a rebellion of his younger brother Ibrahim, he was unable to prevnt Basasiri recovering control of Iraq and proclaiming the Fatimid Imam in Baghdad itself. Rukn al-Din Mascud I: 51051: 111656 KhwarazmshahAnushtigin line: 470624: 10771231 The seljuk empire was ruled by a monarchy. The Seljuks controlled the lands of many people, including settled populations like the Armenians. In the wake of the Samanids (819-1005) Persians who set up a local dynasty in Central Asia within the Abbasid Empire arose to two Turkish dynasties: the Ghaznavids, based in Khorasan in present-day Turkmenistan, and the Karakhanids from present-day Kazakhstan. Eventually there would come to be an eastern and western half, with the eastern based at Merv, in modern Turkmenistan, and the western in Rayy (near modern day Tehran), Isfahan, Baghdad, and Hamadhan. [Source: Suzan Yalman, Department of Education, Based on original work by Linda Komaroff Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org \^/]. Saru Khanid: 700813: 13001410 Political intrigue and instability in the capital coupled with an army that consisted of more mercenaries than loyal Byzantines were concomitants but they were of secondary importance. The Seljuk family has its origins with the Oghuz (Turkish Ghuzz) who lived in 8th century Mongolia during the Gok Turk Empire (522774 CE). The chroniclers of the time draw a sharp contrast between the Sultans and their people: 'Their princes are warlike, provident, firm, just and distinguished by excellent qualities: the nation is cruel, wild, coarse and ignorant.' Germiyandid: 699832: 13001429 "IX The Turkish Irruption" \=], Many things were decided by this episode. His suzerainty was recognized from Kashgar to the Yemen, but risings and disturbances were not uncommon in his vast dominions, and he was obliged to leave to others the conduct of operations against the Byzantines and the Fatimids. Nobles and peasants responded in great number to the call and marched across Europe to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire. This madrasa could be educated only the wealthy people but in Seljuks period madrasa build for all people. /=/, Incessant struggles for the succession further weakened the Empire and gave the Abbasid Caliphs a chance to recover some of their power by playing off one candidate for the Sultanate against another. After Mahmud's death in 1030, the rest of the tribe, led by Arslan's nephews Tughril-Beg and Chaghri-Beg, after encamping for a time in Khwarazm, along the lower Oxus, pushed their way into Khurasan and in 1036 seize Merv and Nishapur. They controlled the immediate area for more than 150 years and sporadically sent out adherents to strengthen their rule by murdering important officials. 9. In the 1090s, he divided his Anatolian and Jerusalem clays into 3 parts. The Abbasidsthe Arab-Muslim rulers of Bahgdadwere displaced by Turkic-speaking warriors who had been in Central Asia for more than a millennium. Their vehement orthodoxy checked the spread of Isma'ilism, which was in future able to operate only as an underground terrorist movement whose agents became notorious as the Assassins. The Turkish migrations after the sixth century were part of a general movement of peoples out of central Asia during the first millennium A.D. that was influenced by a number of interrelated factors--climatic changes, the strain of growing populations on a fragile pastoral economy, and pressure from stronger neighbors also on the move. The Great Seljuk Empire or the Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire, originating from the Qiniq branch of Oghuz Turks. Turkish Studies, Turkic republics, regions, and peoples at University of Michigan umich.edu/~turkish/turkic ; From their homelands near the Aral sea, the Seljuqs advanced first into Khorasan and then into mainland Persia before eventually conquering eastern Anatolia . He was a Persian Muslim from Tus and his father had worked for the Ghaznavids. [Source: Ken Johnson, New York Times, January 9, 2016], Dominant Turkic tribes in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries included the Uighars, Khazars, Kipchacks and Seljucks. Political disintegration was hastened by the spread of the ikta system, by which military officers were paid out of the revenues of certain landed estates, ikta meaning literally a 'section' or portion of land 'cut off' for that purpose, and in some respects resembling the knight's fee of Western feudalism. Fakhr al-Dawla cAli: 37387: 98397 The amirs launched a military and propaganda campaign against them and rounded u suspected Ismailis and had them executed. "IX The Turkish Irruption" \=\, Ken Johnson wrote in the New York Times, The Great Seljuq Empire, which occupied most of western Asia and the Middle East from around 1040 to 1157, was among the more short-lived empires, and it left a comparatively modest material inheritance. One of the most powerful of the European colonial empires, the Portuguese Empire was ruled by an absolute monarch. Seljuk leaders maintained order on the local level through "amirs", nomadic military regimes that were mostly independent and took in revenues mostly for themselves, and "ulumas", Muslim clerics who used their influence to gain political power in a way not unlike modern Ayatollahs. To Arp Aslan, Tugril Beg's nephew and (on his uncle's death in 1063) his successor, that included both Christian Byzantium and the Shiite Fatimid dynasty then ruling Egypt. After a siege of several months, the Crusaders captured the castle by bribing a watchmen, but once inside they quickly became trapped without supplies. The Seljuks united the fractured political scene of the eastern Islamic world and played a key role in . Under Seljuk protection the champions of Sunnite Islam launched a strong propaganda drive against heretics and deviators from the true faith: madrasas or 'college-mosques' were founded in the principal cities for the instruction of students in fikh (Islamic jurisprudence), according to the teaching of the four orthodox schools. Who Were the Seljuks? Ghiyath al-Din Kay Khusraw I (1st reign): 58892: 119296 Around 1290, Osman I (1258-1324), a Muslim warrior and leader of a small principality inside Seljuk Turk territory, declared his independence from the Seljuk sultan. The title is held by Emperor -ranked characters only. The Seljuk dynasty was Muslim Turkish Empire founded by Tughril Beg. They established themselves around Bukhara in Transoxania under their khan, Seljuk. A message that followed read: "Did I not wish the sultan well that dagger which was struck hard into the hard ground would have been placed in his soft breast." \=\, Badr then set out to recover Syria, and though he failed to regain Damascus, which fell to the Seljuks in 1076, he succeeded in checking Tutush's advance to the Egyptian frontier and in re-establishing Fatimid authority along the Levantine coast as far as Tyre and Sidon. At its greatest extent, the Seljuk Empire controlled a vast area stretching from western Anatolia and the Levant to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf in the south. Local people often rose up against them. So their patronization of everything persian was a good thing for the natives. Trkestan Orientaal's links to Turkic languages users.telenet.be/orientaal/turkcestan ; Turkish Culture Portal turkishculture.org ; The death or assassination of both men in October 1092 led to the fragmenting of the empire as rival sultans battled one another for another 1,000 years. Increasingly fractured by fighting among independent Seljuk . Some crusaders went by land led by princes from France Burgundy, and Normandy. The Beginning of the Seljuk Rule and the Oppression of the Shi'as Konya reached its peak under the leadership of Sultan Alaeddin Keykubat in the 13th century but the Seljuk empire as a whole was never as strong as it was. Fakhr al-Dawla cAli: 36687: 97797 Great Seljuq: 429552: 10371157 SELJUKS. Hamidid: 700826: 12391423 Nasir al-Din Mahmud: 61619: 121922 The Seljuk Turks gazis cut deeper into Byzantine territory, raiding and taking booty according to their tradition. The Fatimids proved tougher opponents than might have been expected: the Seljuks were not destined to heal the schism that had rent the Muslim world for nearly two centuries. The best known of these institutions was the Nizamiya Madrasa in Baghdad, named after Nizam al-Mulk and dedicated by him in 1067. The Great Seljuk Empire, [11] [lower-alpha 3] or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, culturally Turko-Persian, [14] Sunni Muslim empire, founded and ruled by the Qnq branch of Oghuz Turks. SeljuqKirman: 433583: 10411187 Seljuks In the 11th century, a Turcoman tribe called the Seljuks set up a state in Iran, with Isfahan as their capital. cAdud al-Dawla Fana-Khusraw: 33872: 94983 The Mamluks occupied Egypt and the Holy Land until the Ottomans took over.. By 1055, the Seljuks had reached and taken over Baghdad, which put an end to Buyid rule, and established themselves as the new protectors of the Abbasid caliphate and Sunni Islam. Local dynasties, some Arab, some Kurdish, sprang up and drained the strength of the regime. She has taught at the high school and university levels in the U.S. and South Korea. The Great Seljuk Empire or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire, originating from the Qiniq branch of Oghuz Turks. The Abbasid caliphs began enlisting these people as slave warriors as early as the ninth century. The arrest exascerbated an already-existing division between Seljuk supporters: a few thousand called themselves the 'Iraqiyya and migrated westward to Azerbaijan and eastern Anatolia, eventually forming the Seljuk sultanate; many more remained in Khurasan, and after many battles, went on to establish the Great Seljuk Empire. Rm is a formable nation that can be formed by any Turkish country other than the Ottomans that manages to assert dominance over Anatolia. A total of 8 episodes of the recent Alparslan series have been broadcast at the time of this review's publication. Just as all seemed lost one of Crusaders had a vision that the lance used to pierce Christ's side before his crucifixion was buried underneath the castle. 9. Their success was largely accidental. The Seljuks usurped power from the Abbasids and then embraced their culture, claiming Sunni Orthodoxy, declared themselves sultans "holder of power." This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been authorized by the copyright owner. The Mongols destroyed Baghdad and a number of other great Muslim cities. Great Seljuk Empire. For the first time in history, a Christian Emperor fell a prisoner into Muslim hands. during its heyday, its territory was so vast, stretching from Anatolia to Punjab in southern Asia, that it finally became the main target of the . The Ottoman Empire was founded. One by one the towns of Persia fell into Seljuk hands. The empire included colonies in coastal Africa, India, Indonesia, China, the Middle East, and South America. Dr. Kallie Szczepanski is a history teacher specializing in Asian history and culture. cAdud al-Dawla Fana-Khusraw: 33872: 94983 Ghiyath al-Din Mascud II (2nd reign): 68392: 128493 They found a lance and this inspired them to drive off the Turks and eventually capture Jerusalem. It had no outlet to the Mediterranean since the Byzantines and the Fatimids had divided Syria between them. The true culprit was a series of strategic and tactical mistakes that led to the collapse of Byzantine influence in Asia Minor, a blow they would never recover from. Anatolia was seen as the new frontier . Inalid: 490579: 10961183 Later the Seljuks were able to win back much of the land taken by the Crusaders and managed to hold on to Anatolia through all Seventh Crusade. The word assassins, which was applied to these murderers, developed from a European corruption of the name applied to them in Syria, hashishiyya, because folklore had it that they smoked hashish before their missions. The Mongols were slightly related to Turkic groups. "IX The Turkish Irruption" \=], However, Mahmud contented himself with holding Arslan as a hostage for the good behaviour of his people, some of whom he brought into Khurasan and settled in widely-separated areas in the hope that they could thus be kept under control. In 1204 these crusaders installed Count Baldwin of Flanders in the Byzantine capital as emperor of the so-called Latin Empire of Constantinople, dismembering the old realm into tributary states where West European feudal institutions were transplanted intact. Rukn al-Dunya wa-l-Din Toghril I (Tughril): 42955: 103863 With the Byzantine field-army gone, the Turks spread over the central plateau, so well adapted for pastoral settlement; in the struggles for the throne which now ensued, rival pretenders hired Turkish troops, and in this way the nomads got possession of towns and fortresses they could never have taken otherwise. Bukhara continued as a center of learning. Government of Turkey . Conditions in Persia and Iraq favoured their intervention. The Seljuks ruled for about a century before they were weakened by fights for succession that thrust Central Asia into another period marked by chaos and conflicts between feuding states. The Seljuk name (in Arabic "al-Saljuqiyya"), comes from the long-lived family's founder Seljuk (ca. The first half of the thirteenth century corresponds to the zenith of Seljuk power in Anatolia. "The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state which dominated the Middle East and Central Asia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Nasir al-Din Mahmud I: 48587: 109294 So the Seljuk empire was governed by Ethnic Turkic people. It added a third nation, after the Arabs and Persians, to the dominant races of Islam; it prolonged the life of the moribund Cali phate for another two hundred years, it tore Asia Minor away from Christendom and opened the path to the later Ottoman invasion of Europe, it allowed the orthodox Muslims to crush the Ismailian heresy, and provoked in reprisal the murderous activities of the Assassins; it put an end to the political domination of the Arabs in the Near East, it spread the language and culture of Persia over a wide area from Anatolia to Northern India, and by posing a grave threat to the Christian Powers, it impelled the Latin West to undertake the remarkable counter-offensive of The Crusades. [Source: J.J. 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