Barkiyaruq

بركيا روق

c. 1081 CE · 474 AH – c. 1105 CE · 498 AH

Rukn al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar Barkiyaruq b. Malikshah — Seljuk sultan for some twelve years; died 12 Sha'ban 498 at Borujerd 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani · Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Baqi

Overview

Abu'l-Muzaffar Barkiyaruq, titled Rukn al-Din, son of Sultan Malikshah b. Alp Arslan b. Da'ud b. Mika'il b. Saljuq — a king of the Seljuks; fortunate and high-minded, he held the sultanate after his father for some twelve years. 1

His death

He died on the twelfth of Sha'ban 498 at Borujerd. 1

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Participated in
The killing of Arslan Arghun and Berkyaruq's takeover of Khurasan in 490

People and things also explored

أرسلان أرغون بن ألب أرسلان· The killing of Arslan Arghun and Berkyaruq's takeover of Khurasan in 490

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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أرسلان أرغون بن ألب أرسلان

Arslan Arghun b. Sultan Alp Arslan — holder of Marw, Balkh, Nishapur and Tirmidh; an overbearing stubborn man, killed by his own ghulam at Damghan in 490, leaving Khurasan to fall to his nephew Berkyaruq without a fight.