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
Khwarazmian Empire from 1172 to 1200. He was the son of
Il-Arslan. His rule was contested by his brother,
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*Sultan Shah ibn Radwan, Seljuk sultan of Aleppo
*Sultan Shah of Khwarezm, claimant to the title of Khwar ...
, who held a principality in Khorasan. Tekish inherited Sultan Shah's state after he died in 1193. In
Turkic
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* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
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* ...
the name Tekish means ''he who strikes in battle''.
In 1194 Tekish defeated the
Seljuq sultan of
Hamadan,
Toghrul III, in an alliance with Caliph
Al-Nasir
Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Hassan al-Mustadi' ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد بن الحسن المستضيء) better known by his laqab Al-Nasir li-Din Allah ( ar, الناصر لدين الله; 6 August 1158 – 5 October 1225) or simply as A ...
, 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 Iran, Khorasan, and Turkestan in 1198.
He died of a
peritonsillar abscess in 1200
[Juvaini, Ala-ad-Din Ata-Malik, ''History of the World Conqueror'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1997. p. 314.] and was succeeded by his son,
Ala ad-Din Muhammad.
References
Sources
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Year of birth unknown
1200 deaths
Deaths from peritonsillar abscess
13th-century Turkic people
Khwarezmid rulers
Anushtegin dynasty
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