Saljuqid

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From Saljuq +‎ -id.

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Saljuqid (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or pertaining to the Saljuqid dynasty.
    • 1936, Farmer, Henry George, “Turkish Instruments of Music in the Seventeenth Century”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society[1], page 27:
      The pirinj būrū پرنج بورو [brass trumpet]. Invented by the Saljuqid Arslān Shāh at Konia.
    • 1973, Proceedings[2], page 117:
      During the Saljuqid Period the society was composed of essentially two classes: [...]
    • 1982, Encyclopædia Iranica[3], volume 13, page 230:
      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.
    • 2003, Islam in Context: Past, Present, and Future[4]:
      The Saljuqid Empire expanded during the period that the Abbasid dynasty was declining.
    • 2016, Wing, Patrick, The Jalayirids[5], Edinburgh University Press:
      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.
    • 2020, Renard, John, Crossing Confessional Boundaries[6], page 79:
      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.

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Saljuqid (plural Saljuqids)

  1. (historical) A member of the Saljuqid dynasty.
    • 1967, Zand, Michaël I., Six Centuries of Glory[7], page 79:
      In this way, glorification of the Fatimids was the poet's method of promulgating Ismailism among those who were discontended with the Saljuqids.
    • 1971, The Islamic Literature[8], volume 17, page 33:
      The vast empire of the Saljuqids had disintegrated and a larger portion of it had passed to Muʼayyid who had established himself in Nīshāpūr.
    • 1990, Hopwood, Derek, editor, Studies in Arab History: the Antonius Lectures, 1978–87[9], page 10:
      Badr was governor over several provinces for thirty-two years; and Nizam, for thirty years, a prime minister under two of the great Saljuqids.
    • 2015, Leaman, Oliver, editor, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy[10], page 368:
      He served possibly as a tax collector first under the Ghaznavids and then the Saljuqids.
    • 2018, Dabashi, Hamid, Truth and Narrative[11]:
      Dubays ibn Ṣadaqa finally lost his head to a Saljuqid.
    • 2019, Singh, Surinder, The Making of Medieval Panjab[12]:
      The new ruler Bahram Shah (r. 1117–57), having received the assistance of the Saljuqids, accepted their overlordship.

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