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The Seljuks proved unable to create a strong, durable and centralized Empire or to destroy the Fatimid Anti-Caliphate in Egypt. Their conceptions of government were primitive, and despite the efforts of Nizam al-Mulk to instruct them in the principles of ancient Persian despotism, which he regarded as the only satisfactory form of rule, they treated their realm as family property..
A History of Medieval Islam - The Turkish Irruption
Publication Type | Journal Article | |
Year of Publication | 1965 | |
Authors | Saunders, J. J. | |
Volume and Pages | PAGES: ch. 9 | |
Publisher | Routledge | |
Place | London | |
Key Words | English; Full Text Online | |
Notes | The Turkish Irruption ; DETAILS: A History of Medieval Islam. London: Routledge, 1965; 2nd ed., 1966. The Turkish Irruption, ch. 9. |
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