Tughril beg biography of christopher

Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika’il (Persian), commonly known as Sultan Tughril Beg or Tughril, was a Turkoman chieftain who formed the Seljuk Empire and reigned from 1037 until 1063. Tughril was born about the year 993, most likely in the Central Asian steppes, when nomadic Oghuz Turks roamed in search of grass for their animals.

Tughril and his brother Chaghri were supposedly nurtured in Jand by their grandpa Seljuk (the eponymous founder of the Seljuks) after their father Mikail died. The wife of Sultan Tughril Beg was Altun Jan Khatun.

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She was a Turkic woman, probably from Khwarazm. The Seljuk family appears to have converted to Islam, at least formally, around this time. In return for grazing for their herds, the Seljuks were hired as mercenaries by the warring groups of Transoxiana and Khwarazm in the ensuing decades.

He gathered numerous Turkmen soldiers from the Central Asian steppes into a confederacy of clans descended from a common ancestor named Seljuk and le