Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

علاء الدين تكش خوارزم شاه

علاء الدين تكش خوارزم شاه

c. July 1200 CE · Ramadan 596 AH

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Ruler · military
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

1100112511501175120012251250 c. c. c. c. c. c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah al-Yunini

Overview

Ala al-Din Tekish, Khwarazm-shah, the father of Ala al-Din Muhammad. He took al-Rayy in 588 AH at the call of Qutlugh Inanj ibn al-Bahlawan. 1

His succession

His brother Sultan Shah had marched against Khwarazm, but its people refused him, and he died in 589 AH. Tekish took over Merv, its kingdom and its treasuries, and appointed his son Qutb al-Din Muhammad over Nishapur. 1

In 590 AH his army killed Sultan Tughril, the last of the Seljuks of Iraq, near al-Rayy. He took Hamadhan and the lands of the mountain, handed them to Qutlugh Inanj, and went back to Khwarazm. 1

Connections

Explore the connections

Participated in
Abu al-Hayja sent against Hamadan· Killing of Sultan Tughril III, last Seljuk sultan in Iraq· death of Khwarazmshah Tekish· Ala al-Din Tekish Seizes Bukhara in 594 AH

People and things also explored

al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'· خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد· السلطان طغرل الثالث بن أرسلان· Bukhara· Hamadan· Khwarizm· Abu al-Hayja sent against Hamadan· Killing of Sultan Tughril III, last Seljuk sultan in Iraq

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.232-233
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “علاء الدين تكش خوارزم شاه”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ala-al-din-tekish/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-18.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

Abbasid caliph [575–622], longest reign of any — forty-seven years. His web of correspondents reached every court till men said he was served by jinn; al-Muwaffaq: 'he revived the caliphate's awe that died with al-Mu'tasim'. Ibn Wasil's counter-verdict: an unjust sira, lands taken, Imami leanings — Ibn al-Jawzi's diplomatic 'best after the Prophet: he whose daughter lay beneath him'. Mid-reign he took up hadith, a seventy-hadith booklet heard as far as Aleppo; blind at the end, a slave-girl he taught wrote his rescripts. Khwarazmshah's march broke in snow without a battle; he died Sunday at Ramadan's end, 622.