Muhammad I (Seljuq sultan)

Muhammad I (Seljuq sultan)

Muhammad I (also known as Ghiyath ad-Din Muhammad or Muhammad Tapar, died 1118) was a son of Seljuq Sultan Malik Shah I. In Turkish, Tapar means for "he who obtains, finds".

He succeeded his nephew, Malik Shah II, as Seljuq Sultan in Baghdad, and thus was theoretically the head of the dynasty, although his brother Ahmed Sanjar in Khorasan held more practical power. Mehmed I probably allied himself with Radwan of Aleppo in the battle of Khabur river against Kilij Arslan I, the sultan of Rüm, in 1107, in which the latter was defeated and killed.[1]

Mehmed I died in 1118 and was succeeded by Mahmud II, although after Mehmed's death Sanjar was clearly the chief power in the Seljuq realms.

Sources

  • Muir, William. "Buweihid Dynasty, Bagdad under Seljuqs, Toghril Beg, Al-Muktadi and four following Caliphs, Crusades, Capture of Jerusalem, End of Fatimids". The Caliphate, its rise, decline and fall. 

References

  1. ^ Anatolia in the Period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks, Osman Turan, The Cambridge History of Islam, Ed. Peter Malcolm Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis, (Cambridge University Press, 1970), 239.


Preceded by
Malik Shah II
Sultan of Great Seljuq
1105–1118
Succeeded by
Ahmed Sanjar
(in Khorasan and Transoxiana)
Succeeded by
Mahmud II
(in Iraq and Persia)