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unusual facts about Nizam al-Din Yahya


Nizam al-Din Yahya

In around 1475 Nizam al-Din led a campaign to assert his authority over the Garmsir region and Makran, with Mir Sayyid Ahmad and his sons participating.


Mughatil ibn Bakri

Mughatil ibn Atieh Bakri (مقاتل بن عطیه بکری) was allegedly a Medieval authority of the Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad, and son in law of Nizam al-Mulk.

Nizam al-Mulk

Nizam al-Mulk is also widely known for his voluminous treatise on kingship titled Siyasatnama (The Book of Government) which was written after Malik Shah had requested that his ministers produce books on government, administration and the troubles facing the nation.

This account is particularly interesting in light of a possibly apocryphal story recounted by Jorge Luis Borges.

In 1091, a group of Ismailis under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah sacked Basra and seized the fortress of Alamut.

Even after his death his family continued to play an important in the Seljuq Empire, one of these was his son, Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk, who was born to a Georgian princess from the Bagrationi dynasty.

Nizam-ul-Mulk

Nizam al-Mulk (1018–1092), a Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuq Empire

Nizamettin

Nizamettin is the Turkish version of the Muslim name Nizam al-Din.

Sunpadh

Nizam al-Mulk states in his Siyāsatnāma that Khorasani had delegated his authority and coffers in Rayy to Sunpadh prior to journeying to Baghdad, where he was eventually murdered by order of the second Abbasid Caliph, al-Mansur.


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