Niẓām al-Mulk

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Niẓām al-Mulk

Seljuq vizier

Also known as: Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭūsī

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Arabic:: “Order of the Kingdom”

Original name:: Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭūsī

Born:: c. 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran

Died:: Oct. 14, 1092, near Nehāvand

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Niẓām al-Mulk (born c. 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran—died Oct. 14, 1092, near Nehāvand) was a Persian vizier of the Turkish Seljuq sultans (1063–92), best remembered for his large treatise on kingship, Seyāsat-nāmeh (The Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings). Niẓām al-Mulk was the son of a revenue official for the Ghaznavid dynasty. Through his father’s position, he was born into the literate, cultured milieu of the Persian administrative class. His early years included a religious education, and he spent significant time with jurists and scholars of religion. In the years of confusion following the initial Seljuq Turk expansion, his ...(100 of 869 words)

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