A. D. A. H. ARABIA AND SYRIA PERSIA—KHORASAN—INDIA +------+------+------------------------+------------------------- | 1058 | 450 |El Mostanser, |El Kaʿim Bʾamrillah | | | 427-487 A. H. | invests Tughril with | | | Proclaimed at Bagdad, | temporal authority. | | | 451 A. H. +------------------------- | | | |Tughril Bey subjects | 1087 | 480 | | Persia. | | |Seditions in Caliphate. +------------------------- | | +------------------------+Tughril Bey invades | | | | India. Firdausi, | | | | author of Shah Nameh. | | | |Death of Tughril Bey, | 1095 | 488 | | 1063. | | |Decline of the +------------------------- | | | Fatimides. | | | | |DOMINATION OF THE SELJUKS | | | | | 1104 | 498 | |Alp Arslan. Conquest of | | | | Asia Minor. | | |Jerusalem invaded by the+------------------------- | | | sons of Ortok, 1076. |Malek Shah. His four sons | | |1098, Siege of Antioch. | divide his empire, | | |Jerusalem captured by | 1072. | 1111 | 505 | the Crusaders, 1099. +------------------------- | | | (492 A. H.) |The kingdom of Gazna | | |1109, Tripoli taken by | overthrown by the | | | the Crusaders. | Sultans Gourides of | | | | Delhi. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FOOTNOTES [1] “Sketches from Eastern History,” Theodore Nöldeke. London, 1892, p. 98. [2] “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” [3] “The Assemblies of al-Hariri,” trans. by Thomas Chenery. London, 1867. Vol. I, Introduction, p. 5. [4] Der Islam, Band V, Heft 2/3; C. H. Becker, Strassburg, 1914, pp. 239, 291. [5] Mediæval India, in “The Story of the Nations Series,” Stanley Lane-Poole, New York, 1903, p. 37. [6] “The Caliphate, its Rise, Decline and Fall,” 1892, p. 578.