High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1092
Death of Malik Shah
November 19, 1092
The Seljuk sultan, at the height of his power, died suddenly at Baghdad just weeks after Nizam al-Mulk's assassination. Rumor blamed the Nizaris or his own jealous wife. His death plunged the empire into decades of civil war among his sons and relatives, giving the Crusaders their later opening. The fragmentation was so complete that no successor ever reunited the whole of the Great Seljuk domain.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.