Who was Nizam-ul-mulk ?
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Niẓām al-Mulk, (Arabic: “Order of the Kingdom”) , original name Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭūsī, (born c. 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran—died Oct. 14, 1092, near Nehāvand), Persian vizier of the Turkish Seljuq sultans (1063–92), best remembered for his large treatise on kingship, Seyāsat-nāmeh (The Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings).
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Alternative Title: Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭūsī
Niẓām al-Mulk, (Arabic: “Order of the Kingdom”) , original name Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭūsī, (born c. 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran—died Oct. 14, 1092, near Nehāvand), Persian vizier of the Turkish Seljuq sultans (1063–92), best remembered for his large treatise on kingship, Seyāsat-nāmeh (The Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings).
Niẓām al-Mulk was the son of a revenue official for the Ghaznavid dynasty. Through his father’s position, he was born into the literate, cultured milieu of the Persian administrative class. His early years included a religious education, and he spent significant time with jurists and scholars of religion. In the years of confusion following the initial Seljuq Turk expansion, his father left Ṭūs for Ghazna (now in Afghanistan), where Niẓām al-Mulk, too, in due course entered Ghaznavid service.