Masʿūd b. Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Durand-Guédy, David
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Masʿūd b. Muḥammad (r. 529-47/1134-52) belonged to the fifth generation of Saljūq sultans in Iran. He was born in 502/1108, most probably in Isfahan, the capital of his father, Sulṭān Muḥammad b. Malikshāh (r. 498-511/1105-18). When Masʿūd was still a youth, Muḥammad entrusted him to an atabeg (Ar. atābak , a great amīr responsible for the prince's education). Like his father, Masʿūd bore the laqab (honorific title) of Ghiyāth al-Dunyā wa-l-Dīn (Succourer of the religion). Masʿūd was twelve when his