or Salj 016B; q dynasty
( 0441; 11th13th centuries) Muslim Turkmen dynasty that ruled Persia, Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia.
Selj 016B; q was the chief of a nomadic Turkish tribe. His grandsons Chaghri Beg and Toghrïl Beg conquered realms in Iran. Under Alp-Arslan and Malik-Shah, the empire came to include all of Iran, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine; Alp-Arslan's victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Manzikert led to several Crusades . Adherents of Sunnite Islam, the Selj 016B; qs adopted Persian culture, and under them the Persian language partly displaced Arabic as a literary language in Iran. By 1200 Selj 016B; q power remained only in their sultanate of R 016B; m in Anatolia, which collapsed in a war against the Khw 0101; rezm-Shah dynasty in 1230 and was overrun by Mongols in 1243. See also Niz 0101; m al-Mulk .