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Nizam al-Mulk

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/ ælˈmʊlk /

noun

  1. title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali . ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated

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The brilliant Nizam al-Mulk, for example, was a Persian who served as the vizier, or prime minister, of the most famous of Seljuk sultans, Malik Shah.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Omar Khayyám takes us into its ruins; for one of the friends of his boyhood days was Nizam al-Mulk, the grandson of that Toghrul the Turk, who with his Seljuks had supplanted the Persian power.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

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