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Tughril Beg Seizes al-Rayy

طغرلبك يستولي على الري

c. 1043 CE · 435 AH

In 435 Tughril Beg the Seljuk seized al-Rayy, and his soldiery killed and plundered until barely three thousand souls were left in it; his envoys came to Baghdad, and the caliph al-Qadir sent the qadi al-Mawardi to censure the deed and command him to treat the subjects well — Tughril received al-Mawardi with honour, in deference to the caliph's letter 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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1030104010501060 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Summary

In 435 AH Tughril Beg the Seljuq took Rayy. His army lost so many men there, through killing and plunder, that only about 3,000 people were left in the city 1.

The letter of al-Mawardi

Envoys of Tughril Beg came to Baghdad. The caliph al-Qadir bi-llah sent the judge al-Mawardi to him to censure what he had done in the lands and to order him to treat the subjects well. Tughril Beg received him and honoured him out of respect for the caliph's message 1.

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al-Mawardi

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The Shahanshah laqab controversy· Adab al-Dunya wal-Din· al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya by al-Mawardi· A'lam al-Nubuwwa· Amthal al-Qur'an· al-Mawardi

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 254
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The Shahanshah laqab controversy

In Ramadan 429 the laqabs 'Greatest Shahanshah, King of Kings' were proposed for Jalal al-Dawla and the caliph ordered the khutba with them; the crowd pelted the khatib with bricks and a fitna broke out. The jurists wrote opinions — al-Saymari and Abu'l-Tayyib al-Tabari permitting, al-Mawardi refusing — whereupon Jalal cut him off, then received him warmly on the feast day, telling him that only religion had moved him and that it had raised his standing in the king's heart.