# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tughril
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:51:05.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tughril"
name: "Tughril"
slug: "tughril"
description: "A Turkoman chieftain who swept out of the Central Asian steppes and built an empire that stretched from Persia to Baghdad. Tughril didn't overthrow the Abbasid Caliphate — he neutered it, turning the caliph into a puppet while seizing command of the Islamic world's armies and borders."
tagline: "Founder of the Seljuk Empire (1037–1063)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seljuk_Sultan_Tugrul_Bey_sitting_on_his_throne._Topkap%C4%B1_Saray%C4%B1_M%C3%BCzesi_1653-3_(304_B).jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "990"
deathDate: "1063-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.41
  momentum:             15.38143865445262
  historical:           23.43106933333334
  currentAttention:     23.46428571428572
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Historical Figure"
    slug: "historical-figure"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
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    title: "طغرل بك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toğrul bəy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugril"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Muhammad Toghril Beg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Togril bég"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Տուղրիլ բեկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toghrul Beg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toghrul Ier Beg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "طغرل بك"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  After the deaths of earlier Seljuk leaders, Tughril united the Turkoman tribes and was declared sultan in 1037. Three years later, his forces crushed the Ghaznavids at the Battle of Dandanqan in 1040, ending their control of Khorasan and opening Persia. He took Nishapur, then Ray, then Isfahan — each in turn made capital as the empire pushed west. In 1055, answering an invitation from Caliph al-Qa'im, Tughril entered Baghdad, expelled the Buyids, and formalized a new order: the caliph kept spiritual authority, Tughril took everything else. He suppressed his brother Ibrahim Inal's revolt and executed him, defeated a Fatimid-backed rival, and forced the caliph's daughter into marriage over the caliph's objections. He died in 1063 without an heir, leaving behind a model of absolute sultanate rule that fused Turkic power, Persian administration, and Abbasid legitimacy — a template that would shape the region for generations.