Meanings
- alternativehistoricalAlternative form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.
After Duqāq's death his son Saljuq inherited his place.
2014, Yehoshua Frenkel, The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings, Routledge, page 842 more examples
According to the Malik-Nāma, [...] the progenitor of the Saljuq family was one Duqaq, called Temür-Yalïgh ("iron-bow"). He and his son Saljuq served the "king of the Turks", i.e. the Yabghu, with Saljuq holding the important military office of Sü-Bashï.
1968, C. E. Bosworth, “The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000–1217)”, in The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 5, page 17But relations between the king and Saljuq did not remain cordial and Saljuq soon migrated to Jand, where he and his followers embraced Islam and expelled the governor of the "king of the Turks".
1986, Central Asia, page 108
- alternativehistoricalnot comparableAlternative form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
The Qaramanlis inherited the kernel of the former Saljuq domain with its capital, Qoniyah [...]
1947, A Study of History4 more examples
In this forceful yet exquisitely balanced interior, what Schroeder termed the muscularity of Saljuq architecture finds classic expression.
1989, Ronald W. Ferrier, The Arts of Persia, page 87Other accounts maintain that the Saljuq family and its followers were allowed to live on the frontier of the huge Samanid amirate [...]
2013, Manzikert 1071, page 14The Saljuq Empire, established by Turkish invaders, reigned over a territory that roughly covers modern Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria.
2014, Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth CenturiesThe Turkmen were the mainstay of the Saljuq army but they were supplemented by Turkish slave soldiers and mercenaries, often of Kurdish ancestry.
2018, The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam
plural Saljuqs
- alternativehistoricalAlternative form of Seljuk, a member of the Seljuk dynasty or person of their empire.
The heritage of the Saljuqs—political, religious and cultural—can scarcely be exaggerated [...]
2009, Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture, page 1673 more examples
The two worst defeats that the Byzantines suffered in the Comneni period were both inflicted on them by the Saljuqs in Asia Minor.
1949, The World of the Middle Ages, page 330Although the Saljuqs were foreign to the Perso-Arab population of the ʿAbbāsid empire by origin, their Muslim upbringing prepared them for a rapid acceptance of the cultural institutions of the Muslim world and the imperial tradition in its broad outlines.
1988, Ann K. S. Lambton, Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia, page 11The Great Saljuqs pushed westward and brought northern Syria under their control in 1055, though they left local leaders in power.
2018, John A. Shoup, The History of Syria, page 50
Origin
- Persianسلجوق
- Arabicسَلْجُوق
- EnglishSaljuq
From Arabic سَلْجُوق (saljūq) and Persian سلجوق (Saljuq).
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