# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-sanjar
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:11.465Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-sanjar"
name: "Ahmad Sanjar"
slug: "ahmad-sanjar"
description: "The last sultan to hold the Seljuq Empire together. For four decades Ahmad Sanjar fought on every border to keep the realm from fracture — and nearly succeeded until age and a catastrophic capture by his own Turkmen warriors broke him."
tagline: "Seljuk sultan (1097–1157)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sultan_Sanjar_with_courtiers_(Sanjar_enthroned)%2C_fol._Walters_Ms._W.676_Fa%2C_Six_leaves_from_Majma%60_al-tavarikh_by_Hafiz_Abru.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1084"
deathDate: "1157-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.123762129442832
  historical:           22.146428
  currentAttention:     3.223997757218951
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ahmad Sanjar ruled Khorasan from 1097, then took the Seljuq throne in 1118 at thirty-one. His forty-one years as sultan were a grinding test: climactic battles on all fronts from the first day, borders held by constant vigilance and force. The cracks came late — defeats at Qatwan and Muharram as his judgment slipped, then in 1153 the Oghuz Turkmen took him captive. He died in 1157. Within half a century the empire he'd kept intact collapsed.