Seldžučku državu je godine 1037. Togrul nakon ranijih pokušaja Seldžuk-beg, osnivača Seldžučke dinastije i velikodostojnika turkijske plemenske konfederacije Oguz Jabgu po kome je dinastija dobile ime. Seldžuci su imali važnu ulogu kako u nastojanju da se ponovno politički ujedinili islamski svijet na istoku, tako i otporu križarima u Prvom i Drugom križarskom ratu, a u čemu su imali promjenljive rezultate. U 12. vijeku je Carstvo počelo slabiti i raspadati se, da bi bilo uništeno od Horezmijaca 1194. godine. Njegovi ostaci su preživjeli u obliku turskih država u Anadoliji, među koje spada Rimski Sultanat, te entiteti od kojih će se razviti kasnije Osmansko Carstvo.
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↑Grousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes, (New Brunswick:Rutgers University Press, 1988), 167.
↑Grousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes, (New Brunswick:Rutgers University Press, 1988),159,161; "In 1194, Togrul III would succumb to the onslaught of the Khwarizmian Turks, who were destined at last to succeed the Seljuks to the empire of the Middle East."
↑Aḥmad of Niǧde's "al-Walad al-Shafīq" and the Seljuk Past, A. C. S. Peacock, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 54, (2004), 97; With the growth of Seljuk power in Rum, a more highly developed Muslim cultural life, based on the Persianate culture of the Great Seljuk court, was able to take root in Anatolia.
↑Meisami, Julie Scott, Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth Century, (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), 143; Nizam al-Mulk also attempted to organise the Saljuq administration according to the Persianate Ghaznavid model..
↑M.A. Amir-Moezzi, "Shahrbanu", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, (LINKArhivirano 2007-03-11 na Wayback Machine-u): "... here one might bear in mind that non-Persian dynasties such as the Ghaznavids, Saljuqs and Ilkhanids were rapidly to adopt the Persian language and have their origins traced back to the ancient kings of Persia rather than to Turkmen heroes or Muslim saints ..."
↑Josef W. Meri, "Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia", Routledge, 2005, p. 399
↑Michael Mandelbaum, "Central Asia and the World", Council on Foreign Relations (May 1994), p. 79
↑Jonathan Dewald, "Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World", Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004, p. 24: "Turcoman armies coming from the East had driven the Byzantines out of much of Asia Minor and established the Persianized sultanate of the Seljuks."
↑Grousset, Rene, The Empire of the Steppes, (Rutgers University Press, 1991), 161,164; "..renewed the Seljuk attempt to found a great Turko-Persian empire in eastern Iran..", "It is to be noted that the Seljuks, those Turkomans who became sultans of Persia, did not Turkify Persia-no doubt because they did not wish to do so. On the contrary, it was they who voluntarily became Persians and who, in the manner of the great old Sassanid kings, strove to protect the Iranian populations from the plundering of Ghuzz bands and save Iranian culture from the Turkoman menace."
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