1. Word List
Timeline
Buyids
Ghuzz
Saljuqs/Seljüks
Toghril Beg Chaghri Beg
c Ghaznavids arrest
Arslan Isra’il.
1029 Ghaznavids take
Rayy.

2. Timeline
1035 Seljuqs lead troops into Khurasan.
1037 Seljuqs take Nishapur.
1040 Seljuqs rout Ghaznavids in battle.
1051 Seljuqs take Isfahan.
1055 Toghril enters Baghdad. Recognised by
caliph al-Qa’im (r ) as sultan (“ruler”).

3. Word List
Timeline
Rayy
Isfahan
mamluks (slave-
soldiers)
Nizam al-Mulk
(d. 1092)
Romanus Diogenes
Sultanate of
Toghril Beg.
Sultanate of
Alp Arslan.
1071 Alp Arslan defeats
Byzantines at Manzikert.

4. Word List
Timeline
Saljuq Sultanate
of Rum
Great Saljuq
Sultanate
iqta‘ (≈fief)
Khwarazm-Shahs
Sultanate of
Malik-Shah.
Sultanate of Sanjar.
1153 Sanjar captured by
Ghuzz.

5. Word List
Timeline
atabegs
Caliphate of
al-Muqtafi.
1152 Al-Muqtafi drives
Saljuq officials from
Baghdad.
Caliphate of
al-Nasir.

6. Word List
Timeline
Nizar
al-Musta‘li
Hasan-i Sabbah
Alamut
Nizaris hashishiyya (Assassins)
Aga Khan Aga Khanis
1094 Dispute over Fatimid
succession.
1095 Death of Nizar.
1130s Nizaris in Syria.

7. Timeline
1141 Qara-Khitai defeat Sanjar at
Samarqand, take control of Transoxania.

8. Object List Mausoleum of Gunbad-i-Qabus (1006-7), exterior view. (A)
Mausoleum of Gunbad-i-Qabus, interior view. (A)
Mausoleum of Gunbad-i-Qabus, calligraphic details (top and bottom).
(A)
Mausoleum of Gunbad-i Chihil Dukhtaran (c. 1056). (A)
A modern yurt. (Wikipedia: <
Entrance, mausoleum of Gunbad-i Chihil Dukhtaran. (A)
Mausoleum of Mu’mina Khatun (1186). (Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic
Art and Architecture (London: Thames and Hudson, 1999),
p. 105.)
F = Ferret, A = Archnet

9. Object List The Great Mosque at Isfahan, Iran. 11th c. Plan. (F)
The Great Friday Mosque of Sultan Malik-Shah. Front view. (F)
The Great Friday Mosque of Sultan Malik-Shah. Distant front view. (F)
The Great Mosque at Isfahan, Iran. 11th c. Rear of the Western iwan. (F)
Qibla iwan, Great Mosque: Isfahan: iwan from 12th c, muqarnas from
14th c, minarets and tile from 17th c, and dome from the 11th c.
(F)
Friday Mosque of Ardestan, Iran (10th-11th c.). Exterior View. (A)
Friday Mosque of Ardestan, Iran. Southwest iwan. (A)
F = Ferret, A = Archnet

10. Object List
Friday Mosque of Ardestan, Iran. Interior of dome chamber. (A)
Friday Mosque of Ardestan, Iran. View of the western iwan spandrel. (A)
Friday Mosque of Ardestan, Iran. Interior view of the dome chamber and
southeastern view of the squinch. (A)
Winter hall - typical Saljuq caravanserai construction (F)
Iran (between Nishapur and Merv): Ribat Sharal: 1114: second
courtyard. (F)
Detail of early Seljuk brick-work. Iran. 11th c. (F)
Walls of Baghdad, 13th c. (F)
F = Ferret, A = Archnet

11. Object List Walls of Baghdad, 13th c. Close view. (F)
Walls of Baghdad, 13th c. Corner tower. (F)
Mausoleum of Zubayda, Baghdad. 13th c. (F)
Mausoleum of Zubayda, Baghdad. 13th c. Example of Stalactite. (F)
Plan of Madrasa al-Mustansiriyya, Baghdad. 13th c. (F)
Al-Mustansiriyya Madrasa, Baghdad. 13th c. Exterior view. (F)
Al-Mustansiriyya Madrasa, Baghdad. 13th c. Close-up of exterior. (F)
Al-Mustansiriyya Madrasa, Baghdad. 13th c. Architectural detail. (F
- four slides)
F = Ferret, A = Archnet

12. Object List
Miniature from a copy of the Maqamat al al-Hariri ( ):
depicting a Bedouin encampment and fig. 13th c. (F)
Abu Zayd and son rob guests in a caransaray. Maqamat al-Wasiti.
Baghdad (F)
Medieval library. Maqamat of al-Hariri. Baghdad. 1237: ill. Yahya
al-Wasiti. Ink and pigment on paper. (F)
Village scene from the Schefer copy of al-Hariri's Maqamat, produced
in Baghdad, (F)
Fritware Mina’i bowl: Kashan. 1187/8. Signed Abu Zayd. (F)
White fritware bowl with carved decoration under a transparent
colourless glaze. Iran. 12th c. 18cm diameter. (F)
F = Ferret, A = Archnet

13. Object List
Lustre mihrab re-used in Masjid-I Maidan: Kashan al-Hasan
ibn ‘Arabshah. Names the 12 imams. (F)
Bobrinski Bucket. Herat Cast brass inlaid copper, silver and
gold. (F)
Bobrinski bucket. (Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic Art and Architecture
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1999), p. 94.)
Candlestick. Eastern Iran/Afghanistan, c Hammered brass, inlaid
with silver and copper. (F)
Mystery object! Iran. Bronze (F)
F = Ferret, A = Archnet