Atsız b. Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Paul, Jürgen
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn wa-l-Dawla Abū l-Muẓaffar Atsız b. Muḥammad b. Anūshtegin (b. c. 491/1098, d. 551/1156), Khwārazmshāh, ascended the throne in Khwārazm on the death of his father, Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad, in 521 or 522/1127-8. He participated in numerous campaigns of his overlord, the Saljūq sultan Sanjar b. Malikshāh (r. in Khurāsān 490-552/1097-1157 and as Saljūq overlord 511-52/1118-57)-against the Samarqandī Qarakhānid in 524/1130, the western Saljūq Masʿūd b. Muḥammad in 526/1132, and the