Topic summary
Anatolian Seljuks
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sultanate of Rum.
Culture and society
Despite their Turkic origins, the Seljuks used Persian for administrative purposes; even their histories, which replaced Arabic, were in Persian. Their usage of Turkish was hardly promoted at all. Even Sultan Kilij Arslan II, as a child, spoke to courtiers in Persian. Khanbaghi states the Anatolian Seljuks were even more Persianized than the Seljuks that ruled the Iranian plateau. Persian poetry was written by sultans Suleiman II, Kayqubad I, and Kaykhusraw II. Written documents used either Persian or Anatolian Turkic, but the army used the Turkic language exclusively.