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Ahmad Sanjar
Ahmad Senjer seated on his throne, in a 1307 Ilkhanid miniature.
Sultan of the Great Seljuq Empire
Reign
18 April 1118 – 8 May 1157
Predecessor
Muhammad I
Co-sultan
Mahmud II (1118–1131) Dawud (1131–1132) Tughril II (1132–1134) Mas'ud (1134–1152) Malik-Shah III (1152–1153) Muhammad II (1153–1157)
Malik of Khorasan
Reign
1097–1118
Predecessor
Muhammad I Tapar
Successor
Kara-Khitan conquest
Born
6 November 1086 Sinjar
Died
8 May 1157(1157-05-08) (aged 70) Merv
Consort
Turkan Khatun
Rasudan Abkhaziyya Khatun
Issue
Mah-i Mulk Khatun
Amir Sitti Khatun
Amira Khatun
Gawhar Khatun
Dynasty
Seljuq
Father
Malik-Shah I
Mother
Taj Safariyya Khatun[1][2]
Religion
Sunni Islam
Ahmad Sanjar (Persian: احمد سنجر; full name: Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith Ahmad Sanjar ibn Malik-Shah[3]) (6 November 1086 – 8 May 1157)[4] was the Seljuq ruler of Khorasan from 1097 until 1118,[5] when he became the Sultan of the Seljuq Empire, which he ruled until his death in 1157.
^Massignon 1982, p. 162.
^Safi 2006, p. 67.
^معزالدنیاوالدین عدودالدوله ابوالحارث احمد سنجر ابن ملکشاه
^Rashid ad-Din. "Collection of annals". Translated from Persian by O.I.Smirnova, edited by prof. A.A.Semenova. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1952. Vol.1, book.2. p. 80.
AhmadSanjar (Persian: احمد سنجر; full name: Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith AhmadSanjar ibn Malik-Shah) (6 November 1086 – 8 May...
The Tomb of AhmadSanjar is a mausoleum commemorating AhmadSanjar, a Seljuk ruler of Khorasan. It was built in 1157 in the medieval city of Merv in the...
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Amira Khatun (Persian: خاتون) was a Seljuk princess, daughter of sultan AhmadSanjar and the principal wife of Abbasid caliph al-Mustarshid. Amira Khatun...
Bazar AhmadSanjar (Persian: بازار احمد سنجر, also Romanized as Bāzār AḩmadSanjar) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District...
Assassins were in a weakened position, and AhmadSanjar launched an attack on them in 1126. Led by Sanjar's vizier Mu'in ad-Din Kashi, the Seljuks again...
thus was theoretically the head of the dynasty, although his brother AhmadSanjar in Khorasan held more practical power. Muhammad I probably allied himself...
Qutb al-Din Muhammad remained loyal to the Seljuk ruler of Khurasan, AhmadSanjar. In 1113 or 1114 he helped a fellow Seljuk vassal, the Karakhanid Arslan...
Persia. Muhammad's son Mahmud II succeeded him in western Persia, but AhmadSanjar, who was the governor of Khurasan at the time being the senior member...
Hindustan, used by the Mughals Some Seljuk rulers, like Grand Seljuk AhmadSanjar (as padishah-i sharq-u gharb, a translation of the Arabic malik al-mashriq...
power through the support of his uncle, the principal Seljuk sultan AhmadSanjar (r. 1118–1157); when the latter left for Transoxiana to suppress a rebellion...
1072) and great-grandson AhmadSanjar (sultan from 1118 to 1157) were buried at Merv, the latter at the Tomb of AhmadSanjar. Nearing the end of the 11th century...
daughter of Sultan Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'ud and Gawhar Khatun, the daughter of AhmadSanjar. She had been formerly married to his brother Dawud. However, they failed...
against his suzerain, the Seljuk Sultan AhmadSanjar, but was defeated in Hazarasp and forced to flee. Sanjar installed his nephew Suleiman Shah as ruler...
Ahmad (1997). Syrian Ismailism: The Ever Living Line of the Imamate, AD 1100-1260. Psychology Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780700705054. Mirza, Nasseh Ahmad (1997)...
structure of the site dates back to the Seljuk era. It was built by Sultan AhmadSanjar in the 11th century, over the grave of the Hanafi Maturidi scholar and...
al-Mustazhir al-Mustarshid al-Rashid al-Muqtafi Seljuk sultans Tughril Alp Arslan Malik-Shah I Mahmud I Berkyaruq Malik-Shah II Muhammad I AhmadSanjar...
against his suzerain, the Seljuq sultan AhmadSanjar, but was defeated in Hazarasp and forced to flee. Sanjar installed his nephew Suleiman Shah as ruler...
Nizami (1970). "FOUNDATION OF THE DELHI SULTANAT". In Mohammad Habib; Khaliq Ahmad Nizami (eds.). A Comprehensive History of India: The Delhi Sultanat (A.D...
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