Seljuk

Seljuk

Seljuk (Arabic: السلاجقة, Turkish: "Selçuk"; also Seldjuk, Seldjuq, Seljuq) was the eponymous hero of the Seljuks. He was the son of a certain Duqaq surnamed Timuryaligh -"of the iron bow"- and either the chief or an eminent member from the Kınık tribe of the Oghuz Turks. In about 985 the Seljuk clan split off from the bulk of the Tokuz-Oghuz, a confederacy of nine clans long settled between the Aral and Caspian Seas, and set up camp on the right bank of the lower Syr Darya(Jaxartes), in the direction of Jend, near Kzyl Orda in present day south-central Kazakhstan where they were converted to Islam.

The biblical names of his four sons -Mîkâîl, Isrâîl (Arslan), Mûsâ, and Yûnus (Jonah)- suggest previous acquaintance with either Khazar Judaism or Nestorian Christianity.Fact|date=March 2008 Seljuk died approximately in 1038 and was sacrified in a tomb.Fact|date=January 2008

Under Mikail's sons Toghrul and Chaghri the Seljuks migrated into Khurasan. Ghaznavid attempts to stop Seljuks raiding the local Muslim populace led to the Battle of Dandanaqan on 23 May 1040. Victorious Seljuks became masters of Khurasan, expanding their power into Transoxiana and across Iran. By 1055 Toghrul had expanded his control all the way to Baghdad, setting himself up as the champion of the Abbasid caliph, who honored him with the title "sultan". Earlier rulers may have used this title but the Seljuks seem to have been the first to inscribe it on their coins. [Carter Vaughn Findley, "The Turks in World History", pp. 68, 2005, Oxford University Press]

ee also

*Great Seljuk Empire
*Seljuk Sultanate of Rum

Notes

References

*Rene Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes, 1970, Rutgers University Press
* http://www.selcuklular.com/?


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