Shāhānshāh

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/21386

Seljuk sultan of Rum, son of Kilij-Arslān I

Names

  • Syriac: ܫܗܢܫܗ = ShHΝShH 1

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 1116

Temporal Data

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 596 [Syriac].
    • Sahinšah: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 194, 195, 346 [French].
    • Shahinshah son of Kilij-Arslan: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 86 & n.188, 342 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Shāhānshāh” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/21386.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; Wikipedia matching; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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