Ahmad Sanjar
Seljuk sultan (1097-1157) · Politicians · Lived 1084 to 1157 · aged 73
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Something wrong?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.
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Sultan Sanjar with courtiers (Sanjar enthroned), fol. Walters Ms. W.676 Fa, Six leaves from Majma` al-tavarikh by Hafiz Abru
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A miniature depicting the Seljuk Sultan Sanjar b. Melikşah. Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi III. Ahmed Kütüphanesi 1653-3 (313 A).jpg?width=1200)
A miniature depicting the war with the Oghuz during the reign of Sultan Sanjar. Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi 1653-3 (315 A)
Adib Sabir receiving a robe of honor from Ahmad Sanjar. Copied by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin al-ʻAlavi al-Kashi between February 1314-February 1315
Adib Sabir receiving a robe of honour from Ahmad Sanjar. Copied by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin al-ʻAlavi al-Kashi between February 1314-February 1315.jpg?width=1200)
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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.
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