Claude Cahen
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LOCATION: Savigny-sur-Orge, France
Professor of Islāmic History, University of Paris I, 1959–79. Author of La Syrie du nord á l'époque des croisades and others.
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Alp-Arslan was the second sultan of the Seljuq Turks (1063–72), who inherited the Seljuq territories of Khorāsān and western Iran and went on to conquer Georgia, Armenia, and much of Asia Minor (won from the Byzantines). Alp-Arslan was the son of Chaghri Beg, the ruler of Khorāsān in Iran, and the…
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