Notes on Some Early Seljuqid Viziers

Abstract

Of the medieval Muslim historians writing in Arabic and Persian several supply us with lists of the viziers employed by Ṭughrul Beg, the first sultan of the Āl Seljuq. The list supplied by Ibn al-Athir (died A.D. 1234) shows the following four persons as having acted in turn for him as vizier: (1) Abū'l-Qāsim ‘All ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Juwaynī. (2) The Ra'īs al-Ru'asā Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn ‘Alī ibn Mīkā'īl. (3) The Niຓāam al-Mulk Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Dihistānī. (4) The ‘Amīd al-Mulk al-Kundurī.