HIST 3791 Study Guide - Persian Language, Ulama, Jizya
9 Dec 2013
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Nizam al-mulk: personified persian influence in saljuq affairs, became influential after joining alp arslan / functioned as de facto ruler of saljuq kingdom which he modeled after ghaznavid state / nizam al-mulk & saljuq admin: instructed. Alp arslan and malik shah in autocratic iranian administration / condemned shia"a. Islam and strengthened institutional basis of sunni islam / founded many madrasas in khurasan and iraq in order to systemize sunni muslim religious training. Oghuz: turks entered the islamic world in 2 ways: as military slaves and as pastoral nomads / with the founding of ghaznavid state by former turkic slaves of. Iranian samanids, turkish nomads began migrating into middle east from mawaranahar as islamized turkish pastoralists / in late 10th and early 11th cent. They poured onto iranian plateau led by dominant tribe, the saljuqs / raided into. Byzantine empire, provided military forces and structure to later safavid empire and began settling in anatolia /
