Seljuk Empire, Islam
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Seljuk Empire
Isfahan
Turkish sultans who entered Baghdad in 1055 and revived Sunni power.
How does it touch Islam?
Their vizier Nizam al-Mulk founded the Nizamiyya madrasas, where al-Ghazali taught.
Who else is linked?
Al-BayhaqiAl-Khatib al-BaghdadiAl-BaghawiAl-ZamakhshariAl-MawardiAl-QushayriAl-JuwayniAl-GhazaliAbd al-Qadir al-JilaniMahmud al-KashgariOmar KhayyamBaghdadManzikertHamadanIsfahanTehran (and Rayy)TusNishapurMerv
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Empires
- Sumer and Akkad
- Ancient Egypt
- Indus Valley
- Babylonia
- Shang and Zhou China
- Assyria
- Saba (Sheba)
- Kingdom of Dawud and Sulayman
- Greek city-states
- Persian Empire
- Alexander and successors
- Han China
- Roman Empire
- Himyar (Yemen)
- Sasanian Persia
- Byzantine Empire
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Empire of Ghana
- Tang China
- Franks and Holy Roman Empire
- State of Madinah
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Umayyads of Cordoba
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Ghaznavids
- Seljuk Empire
- Almoravids and Almohads
- Ayyubids
- Delhi Sultanate
- Mongol Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mali Empire
- Muslim Mongol khanates
- Seljuks of Rum and beyliks
- Ottoman Empire
- Ming and Qing China
- Safavid Persia
- Mughal Empire
- European colonial empires
- Pahlavi Iran
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Saudi Arabia
- Republic of Turkey
- Independent Muslim-majority states
- Cold War and after
- Hittite Empire
- Olmec civilisation
- Phoenicia
- Kingdom of Kush
- Carthage
- Minaeans, Qataban and Hadramawt
- Maurya Empire
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Parthian Empire
- Judea
- Maya civilisation
- Gupta Empire
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Christian Nubia
- Ghassanids
- Japan
- Christian Spain
- Aghlabids
- Idrisids
- Khmer Empire
- Samanids
- Kievan Rus'
- England and Britain
- Buyids
- Song China
- France
- Taifa kingdoms
- Khwarazmian Empire
- Crusader states
- Great Zimbabwe
- Zengids
- Portugal
- Ghurids
- Hafsids
- Nasrid Granada
- Golden Horde
- Marinids
- Pasai and Aceh
- Russia
- Ifat and Adal
- Deccan sultanates
- Bengal Sultanate
- Timurids
- Malacca Sultanate
- Aztec Empire
- Inca Empire
- Songhai Empire
- Kanem-Bornu
- Alawi Morocco
- Qajar Iran