Mu'ayyid al-Mulk Abu Bakr ibn Nizam al-Mulk

مؤيد الملك أبو بكر بن نظام الملك

Son of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk: came to Baghdad in 468 for his marriage to the sultan's daughter and took up the palace his father had built beside the madrasa; present at al-Muqtadi's bay'a in 467, defended his quarter in the 470 madrasa-market riot, and took Tikrit for the sultan 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
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Mu'ayyid al-Mulk, son of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi; he entered Baghdad in 468 for his marriage to the sultan's daughter, and moved to a house his father had built beside the madrasa — the vizier went to him in procession 2; he attended al-Muqtadi's bay'a in 467, and in the madrasa-souk riot of 470 feared for his house and sent to the 'Amid Abu Nasr, who dispatched the Daylamis and the guard to him; he also opened Takrit. 3

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نظام الملك وزير ألب أرسلان

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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· The sakk and the hawala· The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah· وضع التقويم الجلالي في عهد ملكشاه· Nizam al-Mulk's Reform of the Calendar· The Founding of the Nizamiyya in Baghdad· The Nizamiyya of Nishapur· The Strife over Declaring the Hanbalis Unbelievers and the Looting of the Nizamiyya Market

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.634,641,655,668
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.641
  3. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.634,655,668
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The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad

The Nizamiyya of Baghdad, first and most famous of the madrasas founded by the vizier Nizam al-Mulk al-Tusi: building began in 457 and sisters rose at Nishapur, Isfahan, Herat, Basra, Mosul and Amid; the Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni then Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi taught in it, and it mothered the Sunni institutional model that the later madrasas of Baghdad followed — the caliphs prayed there and Nizam al-Mulk himself visited to inspect its library.