Nasir ud-Din Mahmoud ibn Malik Shah ( Arabic. محمود بن ملكشاه ; d. 1094) - Sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire from 1092 to 1094 [1] .
| Mahmud | |||||||
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| محمود بن ملكشاه | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Melik Shah I | ||||||
| Successor | Barkiyaruk | ||||||
| Birth | 1088 | ||||||
| Death | 1094 | ||||||
| Father | Melik Shah I | ||||||
| Mother | |||||||
| Religion | Muslim Sunni | ||||||
A month after the assassins killed Nizam al-Mulk , Malik Shah died. After the death of Malik Shah I, the rapid disintegration of the empire began: the Koni Sultanate of Kylych-Arslan I was isolated, then the Syrian Tutush and Kirmansky [2] . In Khorezm, the vassal dynasty of Anushteginids began to rapidly strengthen, and in Khorasan the son of Alp-Arslan, Arslan-Argun, revolted [3] . Such fragmentation among the Seljuks led to the unexpected success of the First Crusade since 1096 [4] .
As the state collapsed, the widow of Malik Shah Tarhan Khatun concentrated power in her hands and proclaimed her 4-year-old son Mahmud I to be the sultan. Tarhan Khatun moved from Baghdadan to Isfahan, where Malik Shah’s son was from his other wife - a 12-year-old Berkiyaruk . Berkiyaruk fled to Rey and was proclaimed a sultan here. In 1093, the troops of Tarkhan-Khatun were defeated at Barujerd , and in 1094 they were finally defeated. Soon Tarkhan-Khatun died, and then Mahmud died. Smallpox became the cause of the death of the little Sultan [3] .
Notes
- ↑ International encyclopaedia of Islamic dynasties , Ed. Nagendra Kr Singh, (Anmol Publication PVT Ltd., 2005), 1076.
- ↑ Asbridge, Thomas S., The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land , (Harper Collins, 2010), 22.
- ↑ 1 2 Ryzhov K.V., 2004 .
- ↑ Asbridge, Thomas S., The First Crusade: A New History , (Oxford University Press, 2004), 334.
Literature
- Ryzhov K.V. Seljuk // All the monarchs of the world. Muslim East. VII – XV centuries - M .: Veche,2004 .