Biography of nizam ul mulk tusi hazirliq

NIZAM al-MULK, Abu 'Ali al-Hasan b. 'Ali b. Ishaq al-Tusi, the celebrated minister of
the Saldjuqid sultans Alp Arslan [q.v.] and Malikshah [q.v.].

Biography of nizam ul mulk tusi hazirliq

According to most authorities, he
was born on Friday 21 Dhu 'l-qa'da 408/10 April 1018, though the 6th/12th century
Ta'ri¦h-i Bayhaq of Ibn Funduq al-Bayhaqi [q.v.], which alone supplies us with detailed
information about his family, places his birth in 410/1019-20.

His birth-place was Radkan,
a village in the neighbourhood of Tus, of which his father was revenue agent on behalf of
the óhaznawid government. Little is recorded of his early life. The Wasaya-yi Khwadja-yi Nizam
al-Mulk, however (for a discussion of the credibility of which see JRAS [1931], The
Sar-gudhasht-i Saiyidna, etc.), contains several anecdotes of his childhood, and is also responsible
for the statement that he became a pupil in Nishapur of a well-known Shafi'i doctor Hibat
Allah al-Muwaffaq.

On the defeat of Mas'ud of óhazna at Dandanqan [q.