Qutalmish

Qutalmish
Seljuq sultans of Rum
Reign	? –
Predecessor	Aslan Yabgu
Successor	Suleiman ibn Qutulmish
House	Seljuks
Father	Aslan Yabgu

Qutalmish (Old Anatolian Turkish: قُتَلمِش, Persian: قتلمش‎‎) (alternative spellings: Qutulmush, Kutalmish, Kutalmış) was a Turkic prince who was a member of Seljukid house in the 11th century. His son Suleyman /or Suleiman), founded the Sultanate of Rum 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 Seljuq Turks. 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.^[1] His son, Suleiman, was appointed Sultan of Rûm by Malik Shah I in 1073.

Legacy

Kutalmış is a common masculine Turkish given name, which is used in memory of Kutalmısh.

References

1. Institutionalisation of Science in the Medreses of pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Turkey, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Ed. Gürol Irzik and Güven Güzeldere, (Springer, 2005), 267.