Qutb ad-Din Muhammad (;

full name A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek ''prósōpon'' – person, and ''onoma'' –name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group, they all relate to that ...

: ''Qutb ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul-Fath Muhammad Arslantegin ibn Anushtegin'') was the first

Shah Shāh (; ) is a royal title meaning "king" in the Persian language.Yarshater, Ehsa, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII, no. 1 (1989) Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to refer to the leaders of numerous Per ...

Khwarezm Khwarazm (; ; , ''Xwârazm'' or ''Xârazm'') or Chorasmia () is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by ...

from 1097 to 1127. He was the son of

Anushtegin Gharchai Anushtegin Gharchai (also spelled Anush-Tegin; ; died 1097) was a Turkic slave commander ( ''ghulam'') of the Seljuks and the governor of Khwarazm from approximately 1077 until 1097. He was the first member of his family to play a role in the hi ...

. In around 1097, Qutb al-Din Muhammad was appointed governor of Khwarazm by the

Seljuk Seljuk (, ''Selcuk'') or Saljuq (, ''Saljūq'') may refer to: * Seljuk Empire (1051–1153), a medieval empire in the Middle East and central Asia * Seljuk dynasty (c. 950–1307), the ruling dynasty of the Seljuk Empire and subsequent polities * S ...

Sultan

Berkyaruk Rukn al-Din Abu'l-Muzaffar Berkyaruq ibn Malikshah (; 1079/80 – 1105), better known as Berkyaruq (), was the fifth sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1094 to 1105. The son and successor of Malik-Shah I (), he reigned during the opening stages of ...

's military commander, Habashi ibn Altun-Taq. Habashi had just put down a revolt by two Seljuk amirs, Qodun and Yaruq-Tash, who had killed the previous governor of Khwarazm, Ekinchi, and wanted to rule the province themselves. Qutb al-Din Muhammad therefore took control of Khwarazm and stopped an attempt by Ekinchi's son, Toghril-Tegin, to seize the region. During his lifetime, Qutb al-Din Muhammad remained loyal to the Seljuk ruler of

Khurasan KhorasanDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed. Tehran, Zavvâr: 1375 (Solar Hijri Calendar) 235–236 (; , ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West Asia, West and Central Asia that encompasses wes ...

, Ahmad Sanjar. In 1113 or 1114 he assisted a fellow Seljuk vassal, the Karakhanid Arslan Khan, quell turmoil caused by the discontented religious classes in his realm. He also participated in Ahmad Sanjar's military campaign against the Great Seljuk Mahmud II (Seljuk sultan), Mahmud II who ruled in western Iran and Iraq, in 1119. Qutb al-Din Muhammad died in 1127 and was succeeded by his son Atsiz.

References

*Boyle, J. A. . ''The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods.'' Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1968. 1127 deaths Year of birth unknown Anushtegin dynasty {{Asia-royal-stub