Meanings
- alternativehistoricalnot comparablerareAlternative form of Seljukian, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
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Meanwhile the Shī'ite extremists, the Ismā'īlians, had founded, in Ifrīqiya (Tunisia), in 910, a Mahdist caliphate which transferred itself to Egypt in 969, then conquered Syria, and which claimed to control the whole body of the Shī'ites, while appearing as opponents of the Sunnite caliphs of Bagdad. But, in 1055, they fell under the dominion of Saljūqian amīrs who proclaimed themselves zealous defenders of Sunnism.
1950, Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Muslim Institutions, page 40
Origin
- Arabicسَلْجُوق
- EnglishSaljūqian
From Saljūq + -ian, from an unadapted borrowing of Arabic سَلْجُوق (saljūq).
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