HIST 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Alp-Tegin, Lingam, Iranian Plateau
8 Oct 2020
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Part i: the advent of the turks. Mahmud: alptigin"s grandson, conquers samanids and the punjab, expands eastward into khorasan, raids gujurat, sacks the city of somnath and destroys the hindu temple to shiva. The seljuks: oghuz turks migrate into khorasan, become vassals and mercenaries of. Mahmud, one clan leader is seljuks: 1038 two of seljuk"s grandson, chagri and tughril, unite the oghuz clans of. Khorasan birth of the seljuk dynasty: seljuks raid khorasani cities, ghaznavids do nothing for their heavy taxes. Khorasan changes sides and surreders: 1040 seljuks defeat ghaznavid army. Seljuk expansion: seljuks move west onto iranian plateau capturing ray, ramadan and isfahan by. 1050: 1055 seljuks (who are sunni) become the power behind the abbasid throne in. Who are the fatimids: originally ishmailis (a shia sect) from yemen, claimed direct descent from the. Prophet through fatima: 909 an ismaili imam proclaims himself al-mahdi (the mahdi) and caliph, fatimids take north africa (ifriqiya)
