What was the Seljuk Empire?

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The Seljuk Empire (1037–1194) was a Turkish Sunni sultanate that protected the Abbasid Caliphate. Under it were Nizam al-Mulk and the Nizamiyya madrasas, and the battle of Manzikert took place in 1071. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

What was the Seljuk Empire?

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas