Qutalmish ibn
Arslan Isra'il (, , ) (alternative spellings: Qutalmis, Kutalmish, ) was a Turkic prince who was a member of Seljukid house in the 11th century. His son
Kutalmışoğlu Suleiman, founded the
Sultanate of Rum
The Sultanate of Rum was a culturally Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rum) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. ...
in what is now Turkey.
Sultanate of Rûm
Kutalmish was the son of
Arslan Yabgu and a cousin of
Tughril and played a vital role in the conquests of the
Seljuk Turks
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turks, Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate society, Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persi ...
. In 1046, he was sent with an army by Tughril to force back the
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...
army at Ganja and was victorious.
He supported a rebellion against Tughril and contested the succession to the throne with
Alp Arslan. (''see''
Battle of Damghan (1063)) According to the historian
Ali ibn al-Athir, Kutalmish knew the sciences of the stars. He had five sons, among them Mansur
and
Suleiman, who was recognized as
Sultan of Rûm by
Malik Shah I in 1084.
Name
"
Kut Almış" means "he that has received fortune (majesty)".
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People from the Sultanate of Rum
11th-century nobility