Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk
Diya al-Mulk Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk | |
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Seljuk Vizier | |
In office 1106/1107 - 1110/1111 | |
Monarch | Muhammad I Tapar |
Succeeded by | Shams al-Mulk Uthman |
Personal details | |
Born | Balkh |
Died | 1149/1150 CE Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate (now Iraq) |
Spouse | unknown |
Children | unknown |
Parent(s) | Father: Nizam al-Mulk Mother: Georgian princess, niece or daughter of Bagrat III |
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Ḍiyaʾ al-Mulk Aḥmad ibn Niẓām al-Mulk (
one of the most famous viziers of the Seljuq Empire.Biography
Ahmad was born in Balkh, he was the son of Nizam al-Mulk, and a Georgian princess, who was the niece or daughter of Bagrat III of Georgia.[1] During the lifetime of his father, Ahmad lived in Hamadan and Isfahan, and continued to do so in a few years after his father's death.
In 1106/1107, he went to the court of
. When Ahmad arrived to the court, Muhammad I appointed him as his vizier, replacing Sa'd al-Mulk Abu'l-Mahasen Abi who had been recently executed on suspicion of heresy. The appointment was due mainly to the reputation of his Ahmad's father. He was then given various titles which his father held (Qewam al-din, Sadr al-Islam and Nizam al-Mulk).Ahmad was vizier for four years in which he in 1107/1108 accompanied Sultan Muhammad I during his campaign in
In 1122, the son of Muhammad I,
One year later, Mahmud II removed Shams al-Mulk Uthman as his vizier, and had him executed. The Abbasid caliph then used this opportunity to get rid of Ahmad as his vizier.[4] Ahmad then retired to a school in Baghdad which was founded by his father, the Nezamiyeh, where he lived the last 25 years of his life, dying in 1149/1150.[1]
See also
- Malik Shah I
- Omar Khayyam
References
- ^ a b c d Bosworth 1984, pp. 642–643.
- ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 118.
- ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 127.
- ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 122.
Sources
- ISBN 0-521-06936-X.
- C. L. Klausner, The Seljuk Vizierate, a Study of Civil Administration 1055-1194, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973
- Bosworth, C. Edmund (1984). "AḤMAD B. NEẒĀM-AL-MOLK". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 6. London et al.: C. Edmund Bosworth. pp. 642–643.