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The battle of Dinawar between Sanjar and his nephews in 526

وقعة الدينور بين سنجر وأبناء أخيه سنة 526

c. 1132 CE · 526 AH

al-Dinawar

In 526 the battle near Dinawar pitted Sultan Sanjar against his nephews Saljuq-shah and Mas'ud; Ibn al-Jawzi puts Sanjar's host at 170,000 against Mas'ud's 30,000, with 40,000 slain 'a jahiliyya killing over kingship, not religion'; Mas'ud fled into Sanjar's presence and was pardoned and restored, while the Baghdad sultanate was settled on Tughril Beg and Sanjar returned to Khurasan 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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1120113011401150 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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al-Dinawar

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Summary

In 526 AH a battle took place near Dinawar between the sultan Sanjar and his two nephews, Sulayman Shah and Mas'ud 2.

The battle and its consequences

Ibn al-Jawzi says Sanjar had 170,000 men and Mas'ud 30,000. About 40,000 were killed, and they died in a pre-Islamic manner, fighting for power rather than for religion. Tughril Atabeg Saljuq was killed. Mas'ud fled and came before Sanjar, who pardoned him and took him back under his protection. Sanjar then fixed the sultanate of Baghdad for Tughril Beg and returned to Khurasan 1.

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al-Dinawar
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السلطان سنجر بن ملكشاه· السلطان مسعود بن محمد بن ملكشاه

People and things also explored

Capture and killing of al-Mustarshid at Maragha· The deposition of the caliph al-Rashid and the bay'a to al-Muqtafi, 530· Conquest of Dinawar and al-Saymara (21 AH)· The Conquest of al-Dinawar, Masabadhan and Mihrajanqadhaf· The great earthquake of Dinawar· Mas'ud's seizure of the caliphal property and al-Muqtafi's reply· The deposition of al-Rashid billah by a jurists' attestation· The Ghuzz capture Sultan Sanjar

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 558-559
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 558
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Capture and killing of al-Mustarshid at Maragha

Al-Mustarshid marched on sultan Mas'ud; most of his army betrayed him and he was taken to a fortress near Hamadan. Baghdad put dust on its heads, the women went out unveiled keening, prayers and the khutba were suspended — and Sanjar wrote his nephew Mas'ud of the heavenly and earthly signs, ordering the caliph restored; Mas'ud kissed the ground before him. Then seventeen Batiniyya in Sanjar's escort — sent, it was said, without Mas'ud's knowledge, though some say he planted them — fell on the caliph in his camp and slaughtered him with his companions at Maragha, Thursday 16 Dhu'l-Qa'da 529; Baghdad came out barefoot with torn clothes.