Abu'l-Qasim (Seljuk governor of Nicaea)

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Abu'l-Qasim
3rd
Seljuk governor of Nicaea
In office
1084–1092
Preceded bySuleiman ibn Qutulmish
Succeeded byKilij Arslan I

Abu'l-Qasim (Turkish: Ebu'l-Kasım) was the Seljuk governor of Nicaea, the Seljuk capital, from 1084 to his death in 1092.

Life

He was appointed to the post by

Kios and challenge the Byzantine navy. The Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent two of his generals, Manuel Boutoumites and Tatikios, against him. Abu'l-Qasim's army was defeated, his fleet destroyed, and he himself was forced to retreat to Nicaea, from where he concluded a truce with the emperor (see Seljuk campaigns in the Aegean
).

Sources

  • Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century (University of California Press, 1971)