Nizam al-Mulk is assassinated en route from …
Years: 1092 - 1092
October
Nizam al-Mulk is assassinated en route from Isfahan to Baghdad on October 14, 1092, according to one version of the death of the Seljuq vizier.
Most histories says he was stabbed by the dagger of a member of the Assassins (Hashshashin) sent by the notorious Hassan-i-Sabbah near Nahavand, as he was being carried on his litter.
The killer had approached him disguised as a dervish.
The murder is probably committed by an Isma'ilite from Alamut, possibly with the complicity of Taj al-Mulk and Terkhen-Khatun, if not that of Malik-Shah himself.
Another report says he was killed in secret by Malik Shah I in an internal power struggle.
As a consequence, his murder will be avenged by the vizier's loyal academics of the Nizamiyyah, by assassinating the Sultan.
The account is disputed and remains controversial because of the long history of friendship between Malik Shah I and Nizam.
Another report says that he was assassinated with Malik Shah I in the same year, after a debate between Sunni and Shi'a scholars which was prepared by him by the orders of Malik Shah I and which resulted in converting him and the king to the Shi'a ideology.
The story is reported by the son-in-law of Nizam al-Mulk, Mughatil ibn Bakri, who attended the debate.
Locations
People
Groups
- Persian people
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Ismailism
- Kara-Khanid Khanate
- Qarmatians
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Turkmen people
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Seljuq Empire (Isfahan)
- Assassins
