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In 548 AH the Ghuzz rose against the sultan Sanjar, captured him and took over his lands. ¹

While captive

Al-Suyuti says that the Ghuzz kept the sermon in his name, so that he retained the name of the sultanate without the sultan's power. He says that he used to weep for himself, and that his stipend was as much as that of a groom among the grooms. ¹

The Gregorian date is derived from the Hijri year. The report rests on a single source and needs an additional source.

أسر المسترشد وقتله بمراغة

Al-Mustarshid marched on sultan Mas'ud; most of his army betrayed him and he was taken to a fortress near Hamadan. Baghdad put dust on its heads, the women went out unveiled keening, prayers and the khutba were suspended — and Sanjar wrote his nephew Mas'ud of the heavenly and earthly signs, ordering the caliph restored; Mas'ud kissed the ground before him. Then seventeen Batiniyya in Sanjar's escort — sent, it was said, without Mas'ud's knowledge, though some say he planted them — fell on the caliph in his camp and slaughtered him with his companions at Maragha, Thursday 16 Dhu'l-Qa'da 529; Baghdad came out barefoot with torn clothes.

أسر الغز السلطان سنجر

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أسر المسترشد وقتله بمراغة