While Sultan Melikshah was in Baghdad, he wanted to
assign his grandson, Ca'fer as the heir apparent of the caliph, and therefore, they were
on strained terms with the Caliph Muktedi. The caliph wanted him to leave Baghdad
immediately. However, Melikshah was killed through poisoning before the application of
this order (19th November 1092).
The suspicious persons in this poisoning were the
supporters of Nizam ul-Mulk who wanted to take revenge from the caliph and Terken Hatun
who wanted to enthrone his son as the sultan. Sultan Melikshah had died at the age of
thirty-eight and left a great state behind that extended from Kasghar to the Bosphorus,
from the Caucasus to Yemen and Aden.
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