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The Seljuk Empire: Turks, Viziers, and the Sunni Revival in Iran — Fexingo History

The Seljuk Empire: Turks, Viziers, and the Sunni Revival in Iran — Fexingo History

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 In the 11th century, a new power swept into Iran: the Seljuk Turks. Nomadic warriors who converted to Sunni Islam, they toppled the Ghaznavids and Buyids, reuniting Persia under a single rule for the first time since the Abbasids. This episode focuses on the Seljuk rise under Tughril Beg, the genius of their Persian vizier Nizam al-Mulk (author of the 'Siyasatnama'), and the cultural explosion that produced Omar Khayyam and the great observatory at Isfahan. We explore how the Seljuks revived Sunni orthodoxy, built caravanserais along the Silk Road, and fought the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071—opening Anatolia to Turkic settlement. But their empire also sowed seeds of fragmentation: the rise of the Assassins (Nizari Ismailis) under Hassan-i Sabbah, and the conflict between sultan and vizier that led to Nizam al-Mulk's murder. Lucas and Luna discuss the Seljuk legacy as a bridge between nomadic and settled Persian civilization.

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