Ali ibn Ishak, also known as Abu'l Hasan, was a
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
''
dehqan''
[A. TAFAŻŻOLĪ]
''DEHQĀN.''
In: ''Encyclopædia Iranica
''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
Scope
The ''Encyc ...
.'' online ed., 2010: ''"... In the early Islamic centuries many important political figures of eastern Persia were dehqāns (e.g., the Samanid amir Aḥmad b. Sahl b. Hāšem, q.v.) or descendants of dehqān families (e.g., the Saljuq grand vizier Neẓām-al-Molk, q.v.; Gardīzī, p. 151; Ebn Fondoq, pp. 73, 78) ..The profound attachment of the dehqāns to the culture of ancient Iran also lent to the word dehqān the sense of “Persian,” especially “Persian of noble blood,” in contrast to Arabs, Turks, and Romans in particular ..."'' who served as the financial minister of the
Ghaznavids.
[H. Bowen, C.E. Bosworth: ''Niẓām al-Mulk.'' In: ''Encyclopaedia of Islam.''] He was a native of small village named ''Radkan'', near
Tus
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Education
* Technological Univ ...
, in
Iran
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. When the
Seljuq Turks
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; fa, سلجوقیان ''Saljuqian'', alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes
by the Turk ...
conquered
Khorasan in 1040, Ali fled to
Ghazni
Ghazni ( prs, غزنی, ps, غزني), historically known as Ghaznain () or Ghazna (), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana ( gr, Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan ...
, where his son
Nizam al-Mulk was working within the government. Nizam would later serve the Seljuqs, where he became the ''
vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called '' katib'' (secretary), who was ...
'' of the Empire and almost held near absolute power over 20 years.
Nothing more is known about the life of Ali.
References
Sources
* {{cite encyclopedia , encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam, edition=2nd, article = Niẓām al-Mulk , first = Bosworth , last = C.E. , publisher = BRILL , location = Leiden and New York , year = 2012 , isbn = 9789004161214 , pages = , chapter-url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/niz-a-m-al-mulk-SIM_5942
People from Tus, Iran
Dehqans
11th-century Iranian people
Ghaznavid officials