Ahmad Sanjar
Seljuk sultan (1097–1157)
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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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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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