Nizam al mulk biography

NIZAM al-MULK, Abu 'Ali al-Hasan b. 'Ali b. Ishaq al-Tusi, the celebrated minister of
the Saldjuqid sultans Alp Arslan [q.v.] and Malikshah [q.v.]. According to most authorities, he
was born on Friday 21 Dhu 'l-qa'da 408/10 April 1018, though the 6th/12th century
Ta'ri¦h-i Bayhaq of Ibn Funduq al-Bayhaqi [q.v.], which alone supplies us with detailed
information about his family, places his birth in 410/1019-20. His birth-place was Radkan,
a village in the neighbourhood of Tus, of which his father was revenue agent on behalf of
the óhaznawid government. Little is recorded of his early life. The Wasaya-yi Khwadja-yi Nizam
al-Mulk, however (for a discussion of the credibility of which see JRAS [1931], The
Sar-gudhasht-i Saiyidna, etc.), contains several anecdotes of his childhood, and is also responsible
for the statement that he became a pupil in Nishapur of a well-known Shafi'i doctor Hibat
Allah al-Muwaffaq. On the defeat of Mas'ud of óhazna at Dandanqan [q.

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Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I

First Nizam of Hyderabad

Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah I
Nizam-ul-Mulk c. 1745
Reign	31 July 1724 – 1 June 1748
Tenure	c. 1677–1748
Predecessor	Position Established
Successor	Nasir Jang Mir Ahmad
Full name	Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan Chin Qilich Siddiqi Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah I
Years active	c. 1677–1748
Born	(1671-08-11)11 August 1671 Agra, Agra Subah, Mughal India
Died	1 June 1748(1748-06-01) (aged 76) Burhanpur, Hyderabad Deccan
Buried	Khuldabad (near Aurangabad), Hyderabad State, Mughal India (now in Maharashtra, India)
Noble family	Asaf Jahi Dynasty
Spouse(s)	Umda Begum Said-un-Nisa Begum
Issue
Father	Nawab Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I
Mother	Safiya Khanum
Allegiance	Mughal Empire
Service / branch	Nizam of Hyderabad
Rank	Sowar, Faujdar, Grand Vizier, Subadar, Nizam
Battles / wars	Maratha-Nizam War Battle of Balapur Mughal-Maratha Wars Nader Shah's invasi • Nizam al-Mulk Seljuk Abbasid Persian scholar, warrior, politician, and vizier (1018–1092) This article is about the Persian scholar. For the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty, see Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah inom. For other uses, see Nizam-ul-Mulk. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Ṭūsī (Persian: ابوعلی حسن بن علی طوسی) (1018 – 1092), better known bygd his honorific title of Niẓām al-Mulk (Persian: نظام‌الملک, lit. 'Orderer of the Realm'[3]), was a Persian[4][5]scholar, jurist, political philosopher and vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising from a low position within the empire, he became the de facto ruler of the empire for 20 years after the assassination of Sultan Alp Arslan in 1072, serving as the archetypal "good vizier". Viewed by many historians as "the most important statesman in Islamic history", the policies implemented by Nizam ul-Mulk remained the basic foundation for administrative state structures in the Muslim world up until the 20th