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- adjective Alternative form of
Seljuk . - noun Alternative form of
Seljuk .
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Examples
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Initially the Ismâ™Ã®lite Shiites were supporters of the Fâtimid counter-caliphate in Cairo and opposed the political and religious authority of the Sunni caliph in Baghdad and the Seljuq Sultans that he installed.
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In addition to being a confidante of the Seljuq Sultan and his court in Isfahan, he now became closely connected to the caliphal court in Baghdad.
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Consequently, the Ghaznavids and Qarakhanids were forced to become tributary states to the autonomous Seljuq province in Sogdia and northeastern Iran.
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Their Sufi techniques filled a spiritual need left by the suppression of the Shiite and Ismaili sects, particularly after the Seljuq conquest of
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Qarakhanid Empire to his north, he enlisted the Seljuq Turks in southern Sogdia and Khwarazm to defend his kingdom from Qarakhanid retribution.
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The Seljuq sultan, Malikshah (r. 1072 - 1092), imposed his overlordship upon the Qarakhanids in Ferghana, northern West Turkistan, Kashgar, and Khotan.
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The Seljuq state in Iran crumbled with an internal revolt, after which Iran broke into several small states with a succession of many short dynasties until the Mongol conquest in 1220.
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To his followers he justified this step with the great amount of theological confusion among the general public and pressure from authorities at the Seljuq court (al-Ghazâlî
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This brought him in close contact with the court of the Grand-Seljuq Sultan Malikshâh (reg.
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