Ala ad-Din Tekish

Tekish

Tekish's mausoleum
Reign 1172 – 1200
Predecessor Il-Arslan
Successor Muhammad II
Born ?
Died 1200
Spouse Terken Khatun
Inanj Khatun
Fulana Khatun
Issue Ala ad-Din Muhammad
Taj ad-Din Ali-Shah
Yunus-Khan
Toghan-Toghdi
Malik-Shah
Princess Shah-Khatun
Full name
Laqab: Ala ad-Din (shortly)
Kunya: Abul-Muzaffar
Given name: Tekish
House House of Anushtegin
Father Il-Arslan
Mother Terken Khatun
Religion Sunni Islam

Ala ad-Din Tekish (Persian: علاء الدين تكش; full name: Ala ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul Muzaffar Tekish ibn Il-Arslan) or Tekesh or Takesh was the Shah of Khwarezmian Empire from 1172 to 1200. He was the son of Il-Arslan. His rule was contested by his brother, Sultan Shah, who held a principality in Khorasan. Tekish inherited Sultan Shah's state after he died in 1193. In Turkic the name Tekish means he who strikes in battle.[1]

In 1194 Tekish defeated the Seljuq sultan of Hamadan, Toghrul III, in an alliance with Caliph Al-Nasir, and conquered his territories. After the war, he broke with the Caliphate and was on the brink of a war with it until the Caliph accepted him as Sultan of Iraq, Khorasan, and Turkestan in 1198.

He died of a peritonsillar abscess in 1200[2] and was succeeded by his son, Ala ad-Din Muhammad.

References

  1. "TEKIŠ B. IL ARSLĀN" Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 30 August 2014
  2. Juvaini, Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik, History of the World Conqueror, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1997. p. 314.

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Preceded by
Il-Arslan
Shah of the Khwarezmian Empire
11721200
Succeeded by
Muhammad II
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