Nizam al-Mulk
c. 1018 – 14 October 1092
Nizam al-Mulk was a Persian scholar and statesman who served as vizier of the Seljuk Empire for nearly thirty years under the sultans Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah I, becoming the effective administrator of the empire at its height. He founded the famous Nizamiyya madrasas and wrote the Siyasatnama, a celebrated treatise on statecraft. He was assassinated in 1092, reputedly by a member of the Order of Assassins.
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Life events
Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali, later titled Nizam al-Mulk, was born around 1018 into a Persian dehqan family in the region of Tus.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgNizam al-Mulk received a traditional education in Shafi'i jurisprudence and hadith before entering government service.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter early service under Ghaznavid officials, Nizam al-Mulk joined the administration of the Seljuk prince Chaghri Beg and his son Alp Arslan in Khorasan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWhen Alp Arslan became sultan in 1063, Nizam al-Mulk was made vizier of the whole Seljuk Empire, a post he would hold for nearly three decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgNizam al-Mulk established the great Nizamiyya school in Baghdad in 1065, the most famous of a network of madrasas he founded across the empire.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter Alp Arslan's death in 1072, Nizam al-Mulk secured the succession of the young Malik-Shah I and governed the empire with almost complete authority.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLate in life Nizam al-Mulk composed the Siyasatnama, a Persian treatise on kingship and administration that became a classic of Islamic political thought.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgNizam al-Mulk was stabbed to death near Nahavand on 14 October 1092, reputedly by an Assassin disguised as a Sufi, shortly before the death of Sultan Malik-Shah.
Source: en.wikipedia.org