Saljuqid

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A form of Seljukid — Synonym of Seljuk, of or related to the Seljuk dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.

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Meanings

adjectiveSaljuqid (not comparable)
  1. alternativehistoricalnot comparableAlternative form of Seljukid, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.

    During the Saljuqid Period the society was composed of essentially two classes: [...]

    1973, Proceedings, page 117
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    The pirinj būrū پرنج بورو [brass trumpet]. Invented by the Saljuqid Arslān Shāh at Konia.

    1936, Henry George Farmer, “Turkish Instruments of Music in the Seventeenth Century”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 27

    This victory ended the influence of Byzantine emperors in Armenia and the rest of Caucasus and Azerbaijan, and spread the fame of the Saljuqid king in the Muslim world.

    1982, Encyclopædia Iranica, volume 13, page 230

    The Saljuqid Empire expanded during the period that the Abbasid dynasty was declining.

    2003, Peter G. Riddell, Peter Cotterell, Islam in Context: Past, Present, and Future

    Although the suppression of the revolt of Sharaf al-Dīn Masʽūd helped to consolidate the position of the Saljuqid governor Muʽīn al-Dīn Sulaymān, known as parvāna, in Anatolia, it had also demonstrated that the parvāna was dependent on Ilkhanid military support to maintain that position.

    2016, Patrick Wing, The Jalayirids, Edinburgh University Press

    During the decades following the Saljuqid victory over Byzantine forces at Manzikert (1071), contingents of Muslim Turkmen gradually moved westward across the anciently Christian religious landscape of Anatolia.

    2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries, page 79
nounSaljuqid (plural Saljuqids)

plural Saljuqids

  1. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of Seljukid, a member of the Seljuk dynasty or a person of their empire.

    Dubays ibn Ṣadaqa finally lost his head to a Saljuqid.

    2018, Hamid Dabashi, Truth and Narrative
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    In this way, glorification of the Fatimids was the poet's method of promulgating Ismailism among those who were discontended with the Saljuqids.

    1967, Michaël I. Zand, Six Centuries of Glory, page 79

    The vast empire of the Saljuqids had disintegrated and a larger portion of it had passed to Muʼayyid who had established himself in Nīshāpūr.

    1971, The Islamic Literature, volume 17, page 33

    Badr was governor over several provinces for thirty-two years; and Nizam, for thirty years, a prime minister under two of the great Saljuqids.

    1990, Derek Hopwood, editor, Studies in Arab History: the Antonius Lectures, 1978–87, page 10

    He served possibly as a tax collector first under the Ghaznavids and then the Saljuqids.

    2015, Oliver Leaman, editor, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy, page 368

    The new ruler Bahram Shah (r. 1117–57), having received the assistance of the Saljuqids, accepted their overlordship.

    2019, Surinder Singh, The Making of Medieval Panjab

Origin

  1. Persianسلجوق
  2. Arabicسَلْجُوق
  3. EnglishSaljuqid

From Saljuq + -id, from Arabic سَلْجُوق (saljūq) and Persian سلجوق (Saljuq).

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