The Nāṣirī Generations 65: VI. SULTAN-UL-A’ZAM, MU’IZZ-UD-DUNYA-WA-UD-DIN, SANJAR, SON OF MALIK SHAH.

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Sultan Sanjar was a great, dignified, and mighty monarch. His birth took place in the country of Sanjar, in the year 479 H., at the time when his father, Malik Shah, was engaged in the service of the Court of the Khilafat, and occupied in the disposal of the affairs of the Lord of the Faithful.
When his father died, Sultan Sanjar was in his tenth year, and his brother Muhammad ascended the throne. After his brother’s death, Sanjar was raised to the sovereignty; and was distinguished by the Court of Baghdad with a dress of honour, a standard, and a commission of investiture. At the capital, Marw of Shah-i-Jahan, and throughout the whole of the territories of Islam, over which his father and grandfather had held sway, the Khutbah was read for him, and his name was impressed upon the coin.
When he attained unto years of discretion, the flower of youth, and the bloom of manhood, the dominions of the east and of the west came under the control and administration of the slaves and vassals of his empire. His first