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Toghril Bey

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The first ruler of the Seljuq empire.

Names

  • Arabic: طغرل بك السلجوقي = Ṭughril Bak al-Saljūqī 1
  • Persian: طغرل بیگ ابو طالب محمد بن میکال بن سلجوق = Ṭughril Bēg Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad b. Mīkāl b. Saljūq 2
  • Persian: طغرل بیگ = Ṭughril Bēg 3
  • Syriac: ܛܘܪܓܪܠܒܟ = ṬWRGRLBK 4

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw2-3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 412، 534 (2) 452 (4) 72 (5) 408 [Arabic].
  • 2Toghril Beg: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 126 [Persian with English translation].
  • 3Toghril Beg: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 3, 125 [Persian with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 575 [Syriac].
    • Togril-bek: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 158, 168, 170 [French].
    • Ṭugrul-beg: 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), xv, 2, 4 & nn.7, 9, 28 &. nn.85–86, 32, 130 n.400 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Toghril Bey” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5457.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Mary Papadopoulos: abstract and matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • 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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