seljuk

IOTL, Kilij Arslan underestimated the Crusaders after defeated the Peasant's Army. As a result, he went to fight the Danishmends in the East, only to have to make an about face and rush back to Nicaea when he got word of the ever growing Crusader forces at the city where his family was. He...

Hello people! this will be the start of the Tutush timeline as i promised!

In OTL, Alp Arslan learned that Romanos was marching on Armenia while he was at Aleppo preparing to march against the Fatimids. We have had several threads talking about Byzantine Victories at Manzikert but, what if Alp Arslan hadn't learned that the Byzantines were marching toward Armenia and...

what if the schism was worse preventing crusades. Kilij arslan subdues the danishmends and launches an invasion of balkans with Tzachas bey's ships. This laying the ground work for his successors to evenutally dominate eastern europe and middle east. Later fighting the mongols

based on a previous thread we discuss what would happen if the turkic conquest climaxed like the map seen ( or similar to it )whether it be nikephoros III dying early and alexios takes the throne earlier and either defeating or dealing with the normans with out all of anatolia been lost would...

Assuming that the Seljuks do not fall apart (lets say, no battle of Qatwan), how does this effect Egypt and Syria? Let me explain why I'm asking: The Zengids, previously regional rulers within the Seljuk empire, sent an army into Egypt, the leader of this army, Nur Ad-Din took over Egypt, and...

So, recently, I've been reading on the Crusades from Islamic perspectives and the collapse of Seljuqid Empire. There's this guy, Malikshah, who was the sultan of Seljuk Empire at their peak with the aid of Nizam al-Mulk, after Alp Arslan conquest. He died in 1092, and his son(s) fought each...

If the Seljuks had converted to Buddhism (instead of Islam) and had gone on their conquests as OTL, would they have had a chance of converting Central Asia and Persia to buddhism, especially if they twisted it into a more proselytant sect?

During the period of Seljuk ascendancy in Anatolia, and probably after the Fourth Crusade broke up Byzantium, is it possible that a sizable number of Greeks could have converted to Islam and created an Islamic, Greek state? Could an Islamic, Greek state rise similarly to the Ottomans?