At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Overview
Qizil Arslan b. Ildegiz the Atabeg — king of Azerbaijan, Arran, Hamadan, Isfahan and Rayy after his brother al-Bahlawan Muhammad; he succeeded his brother Shams al-Din Pahlawan, lord of Azerbaijan and Persian Iraq, who died in 581. 1
His rule and murder
Sultan Tughril Beg the Seljuk was under his command, as his own father Arslan Shah had been under his father Ildegiz's; he kept five thousand mamluks, and was murdered treacherously on his bed in Sha'ban 587. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
السلطان طغرل الثالث بن أرسلان· Isfahan· Rayy· death of al-Bahlawan — the Isfahan mazhab wars, the Rayy fitna, Tughril breaks free· Sultan Tughril III masters Qizil Arslan
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 749, 769-770
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Qizil Arslan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/qizil-arslan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.