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Tughril Beg dies, al-Kunduri falls, and the cursing is rescinded, 456/1064

وفاة طغرل بك وسقوط الكندري ورفع اللعن، ٤٥٦هـ

1064 CE · 456 AH

Tughril Beg survived his permission of the cursing and the imprisonment of al-Qushayri by only a short while, dying in 455/1063; his son Alp Arslan succeeded him, and al-Kunduri was killed at Marw al-Rudh at the end of 456/1064; then the age dawned with vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who ordered the mention of cursing dropped and its perpetrators disciplined 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

Summary

Tughril Beg survived his permission of the cursing and the imprisonment of al-Qushayri by only a short while before dying in 455/1063; his son Alp Arslan succeeded, and al-Kunduri was soon killed — at Marw al-Rudh at the end of 456/1064, his head carried to Nishapur; then the age dawned with the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who ordered the mention of cursing dropped and its perpetrators disciplined 2 3.

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al-Bayhaqi· Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri· ألب أرسلان عضد الدولة بن جغري بك· نظام الملك وزير ألب أرسلان

People and things also explored

The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah· Al-Bayhaqi's letter to the vizier Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri, c. 446/1054· The pulpit-cursing ordeal opens at Nishapur, 445/1053· The Nizamiyya Madrasa of Baghdad· The sakk and the hawala· Enforced cursing of the Rafida and the Ash'aris from the pulpits of Khurasan· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria· Al-Baghdadi teaches in seventeen fields at Nishapur as Khurasan's imams study under him, c. 425/1033

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  1. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , p. 272; cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 309
  2. Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra — Taj al-Din al-Subki (al-Husayniyya edition) , p. 272
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 309
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The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah

Crossing the Oxus toward Bukhara with more than two hundred thousand horse, Alp Arslan had the captured fortress-commander Yusuf al-Khwarizmi brought before him and ordered him staked; Yusuf sneered 'shall the likes of me die such a death?', the sultan seized bow and arrows, shot and missed, stumbled rising from his dais — and Yusuf was on him with a knife in his side. The attendants killed Yusuf; the sultan's wound was bound and he died back at the Oxus on Saturday 10 Rabi' I 465, aged forty years and five months, after nine years and six months of rule. On his dais his son Malikshah spoke his first command — 'the eldest of you is my father, the middle my uncle, the youngest my son, and I shall do for you what has not been done before' — and the army gave bay'a through Nizam al-Mulk and Abu Sa'd the mustawfi.