السلطان محمود بن محمد بن ملكشاه

Sultan Mahmud b. Sultan Muhammad b. Malikshah the Seljuk, titled Mughith al-Din; he succeeded his father in 512 and the khutba was made for him at Baghdad and elsewhere — a better omen for his uncle Sanjar. ¹

He knew poetry, grammar and history — sharp-witted, strong in Arabic, a memoriser of poems and proverbs, versed in chronologies and biographies, much inclined to men of learning and goodness; the poet al-Hays Bays praised him in his famous daliyya ode and was richly rewarded. In his last days the sultanate had weakened, its funds shrunk until they could not maintain even the alms-office; he died Thursday mid-Shawwal 525 at the Isfahan gate and was buried there. ¹