24 - The King of East and West
Tughrul continues his conquest of Iran and begins truly building the Seljuk state, which is now fast on its way to becoming the Great Seljuk Empire. He achieves pre-eminence over his brother Chaghri ...
21 Kesä 202349min
23 - The First Seljuk Sultan
In the aftermath of the Battle of Dandankan, Tughrul expands west into Iran. But instead of being a traditional barbarian warlord on horseback, Tughrul is committed to ruling in the existing Perso-Is...
7 Kesä 202351min
22 - Seljuk
As the steppe world falls into chaos, the Oghuz Yabgu State begins to fall apart and a leader of the Kınık tribe of the Oghuz named Seljuk emerges. Fleeing the chaos of the steppe world, Seljuk leads...
24 Touko 202348min
21 - The House of Afrasiyab
The mass conversion of the Turks to Islam begins as the rise of the Samanid Emirate and its great Jihad transforms Central Asia. On the steppe, the sophisticated Karakhanid Khanate emerges - the fir...
12 Touko 202344min
20 - The Princes of Persia
As the Caliphate splinters into a patchwork of emirates, a new emirate arises in the far north east of the lands of Islam, in the old Silk Road cities of Transoxiana. Descended from an obscure Persia...
26 Huhti 202344min
19 - Intermezzo
The Anarchy continues to drag on after the Siege of Baghdad. In the provinces, more and more power has fallen into the hands of the Emirs as the center has weakened. Al-Mutazz briefly manages to res...
13 Huhti 20231h
18 - The Anarchy
The Anarchy at Samarra begins. Following the assassination of Al-Mutawakkil by a desperate group of Turkish slave soldiers, a son of the late Caliph is put on the throne by the slave army. But his r...
29 Maalis 20231h 1min
17 - Samarra
An era of unprecedented intellectual and cultural flowering, the Golden Age of Islam, unfolds in the Abbasid Caliphate. But fearful of an emerging dynasty of powerful Eastern governors, the Tahirid d...
14 Maalis 202355min
