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Dar al-Bittikh The mausoleum of Malik Shah and Khwajeh Nizam al-Molk Several ancient inscribed marble tombstone are to be seen in a place known as the mausoleum of Khwajeh Nizam al-Molk. One of the tombs in the mausoleum is attributed to the Khwajeh and the rest, to Malik Shah and other Seljukid monarchs and members of royal family. Nizam al-Molk, Abu Ali al-Hassan, the celebrated vizier of the Seljuk sultans Alb Arsalan and Malik Shah; 1018-1092. The Ghaznawid sultan Mas'ud ibn Muhammad having been defeated by the Seljuks at Damqan in 1040, Nizam al-Molk left the Ghaznawids for the Seljuks. After the assassination of Alb Arsalan in 1072, Nizam al-Molk, for the next twenty years, was the real ruler of the Seljuk Empire, residing with the young Malik Shah in Isfahan. His relations with the Abbasid caliphs al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah and al-Muqtadi were strained, but after he had been received graciously in Baghdad in 1086, he became a champion of the caliphate, while relations with Malik Shah and the princely family deteriorated. Nizam al-Molk was assassinated in 1092, probably by an emissary of the Nizari Isma'ili al-Hassan ibn al-Sabbah, who had obtained possession of Alamut. He was a lavish patron of religious men and of poets. In 1091 and 1092 he wrote a monarch's primer, in which he deals with dangers that threatened the empire, in particular from the Isma'ilis. After his death, members of his family, known as Nizamiyya, held office under princes of the Seljuks for the next sixty years, except for a gap between 1123 and 1134. |
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