Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek
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Double-page from the Qur'an dedicated to Abu’l-Qasim Harun ibn ‘Ali ibn Zafar, the vizier of Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek, also known as Özbeg ibn Muhammad Pahlawan (died 1225) was the fifth and last ruler (atabeg) of the Eldiguzids from 1210 to 1225, during the later Seljuk and Khwarezmian periods. He was married to Malika Khatun, widow of Toghrul III, the last sultan of the Seljuk Empire.
Sources[]
- Bosworth, C.E. (1995). "Özbeg b. Muḥammad Pahlawān". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume VIII: Ned–Sam. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3.
- Luther, K. A. (1987). "Atābakān-e Adharbayjān". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume II/8: Aśoka IV–Āṯār al-Wozarāʾ. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 890–894. ISBN 978-0-71009-108-6.
Categories:
- 13th-century monarchs in the Middle East
- 13th-century Turkic people
- Eldiguzids
- 1225 deaths