Shams al-Mulk Nasr

Shams al-Mulk Nasr
Ruler of Transoxiana
Reign1068 – 1080
SuccessorKhizr Khan
Died1080 (1081)
Transoxiana
ConsortAysha Khatun
DynastyKarakhanid dynasty
FatherIbrahim Tamgach Khan
ReligionSunni Islam

Shams al-Mulk Nasr was a Karakhanid ruler in Transoxiana from 1068 to 1080. He was one of the greatest rulers of the dynasty.

Biography

He was the son of Böritigin, a Karakhanid ruler from the western branch of the family, known as the "Alids", which was named after their ancestor Ali Arslan Khan.

Shams al-Mulk is known for building in the Zerafshan valley. Shams al-Mulk built the palace and gardens of Shamsabad in Bukhara where the Karakhanids later lived. The palace was located southwest of the Magok-i-Attari Mosque, outside Bukhara.[1] Shams al-Mulk was the first ruler of the city to build a royal residence outside the rabad of the city, on the site of the current Namazgah.[2]

One of the most important Karakhanid structures, most of which have survived to the beginning of the 20th century, is Rabati Malik, a caravanserai ruin located in Navoiy, 110 km northeast of Bukhara on the road to Samarkand. The complex was greatly expanded in 1078–1079 by Shams al-Mulk.[3]

During the reign of Shams al-Mulk Omar Khayyam was invited to Samarkand.[4]

Shams al-Mulk died in 1080 and was succeeded by his brother Khizr Khan.[5]

References

  1. ^ McClary, Richard Piran. Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, p.109
  2. ^ McClary, Richard Piran. Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, p. 272
  3. ^ McClary, Richard Piran. Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, p.202
  4. ^ Boris A. Rosenfeld «Umar al-Khayyam» in Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer-Verlag, 2008, p.215-216
  5. ^ Bosworth 1968, p. 65.

Sources

  • Bosworth, C. E. (1975). "The early Ghaznavids". In Frye, R. N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 162–198. ISBN 0-521-20093-8.
  • Davidovich, E. A. (1996). "The Karakhanids". History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III: The Crossroads of Civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750. Paris: UNESCO. pp. 119–145. ISBN 92-3-103211-9.
  • Bosworth, C. E. (1968). "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000–1217)". In Frye, R. N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–202. ISBN 0-521-06936-X.
  • Kochnev B.D. Numizmaticheskaya istoriya Karakhanidskogo kaganata (991—1209 gg.). Moskva «Sofiya», 2006.
  • McClary, Richard Piran. Medieval Monuments of Central Asia: Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

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