Birth of Seljuk Sultan Alp Arsalan:
Alp Arslan was a Seljuk sultan who was born on January 2 - he succeeded his uncle Tughral Beg. He ruled from 1063 to 1072. He was a very alert and brave king. Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi, a well-known mastermind, was appointed Minister of the Empire on the recommendation of his father, Chaghari Beg. During his reign the borders of the Seljuk Empire became very wide. He first included Herat and Jund (Trans-Canal) in his territory. He then defeated the Fatimid ruler and annexed Mecca and Medina. This increased the influence of the Seljuks in the Islamic world. When the Byzantines invaded, on August 26, 1071, they were defeated in the Battle of Malazkard. And Caesar Rome arrested Romanus IV. Caesar Rome not only paid the ransom and agreed to pay tribute. Instead, he married his daughter to the Sultan's son and gave her the territories of Armenia and Georgia. Khwarizmi Governor Yusuf al-Khwarizmi, who was taken prisoner in a campaign against the Turks, was severely wounded by the sword and died four days later, on November 25, 1072, at the age of just 42 years. Alp Arsalan was buried next to the grave of his father Chaghari Beg in Marwa.
The Seljuk Empire was a Muslim kingdom in the Middle East and Central Asia between the 11th and 14th centuries AD. It is important in Muslim history because it was the last major Islamic empire after the fall of the Abbasid dynasty. Its borders stretched from China to the Mediterranean Sea on one side and from Aden to Khwarazm and Bukhara on the other. His era can be called the last great era of the history of Islam, therefore the Seljuk has a special place in Muslim history. Taking advantage of the political turmoil that began in the Muslim Ummah with the fall of the Seljuks, the people of Europe imposed crusades on the Muslims and occupied the holiest place in the heart of the Islamic world (Jerusalem).
