[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 78 # The Nāṣirī Generations 78: SECTION XIII. · ACCOUNT OF THE SANJARIYAH RULERS. Tabakat-i-Nasiri 78 - **Language:** English ### [78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.78) The humblest of the servants of the Almighty’s Court, Minhaj-i-Saraj, Jurjani, states, that, when the period of the dynasty of the Sanjariyah expired, and no son remained unto Sultan Sanjar, nor brother’s sons \[likewise\], everyone of his slaves held some territory among the dominions of Islam. These slaves assumed the title of Ata-baks \[guardians and preceptors\], and, to the brother’s sons of Sultan Sanjar, they accorded the title of Sovereign, whilst they possessed themselves of the different territories of the empire. These Ata-baks were of different races. One was the descendant of the Ata-bak, I-latt-giz, to whom Sultan Sanjar had given the territories of ’Irak and Azarbaijan; the second, the Ata-bak, Sankur, to whom he had given the territory of Pars; and, third, the Ata-baks of Mausil, and the Maliks of Sham. Trustworthy authorities have related some little respecting the events \[in the lives\] of two of these dynasties, as has been \[herein\] recorded; and, with regard to the Ata-baks of Mausil, as much as has been written respecting the affairs of Sultan Nur-ud-Din of Sham is all the information that has been obtained, with the exception of that of which the Khudawand-Zadah \[son of a lord or great man\] of Mausil informed me, which was this much, that his eighth ancestor was a Turk of Khata-i, and the slave of Sultan Sanjar. Such being the case, this dynasty \[of Ata-baks\] has been classified into three sections. - [Previous: 77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.77) - [Next: 79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.79) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.78) · Pramāṇa