Kilij Arslan IV

Kilij Arslan IV (Old Anatolian Turkish: قِلِج اَرسلان) or Rukn ad-Dīn Qilij Arslān bin Kaykhusraw (Persian: رکن الدین قلج ارسلان بن کیخسرو‎) was Seljuq Sultan of Rûm after the death of his father Kaykhusraw II in 1246. He was installed by the Mongol Empire, as sultan over his elder brother, Kaykaus II.[3] He was executed in 1265 by the Pervâne Mu‘in al-Din Suleyman.

Kilij Arslan IV
Seljuq sultans of Rum
Reign	1246/1249–1254[1] (first rule) 1257–1266 (second rule)
Co-sultan	Kayqubad II (1249–1254) Kaykaus II (1249–1254) and (1257–1262)
Predecessor	Kaykhusraw II
Successor	Kayqubad II
Predecessor	Kayqubad II
Successor	Kaykhusraw III
Born	unknown undisclosed
Died	1265
Consort	Gumaḉ Khatun[2]
Issue	Saljuk Khatun
Full name Rukn ad-Dīn Qilij Arslān bin Kaykhusraw
Father	Kaykhusraw II

References

1. Faruk Sümer. "KILICARSLAN IV (ö. 664/1266) Anadolu Selçuklu sultanı (1249-1254, 1257-1266).". İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
2. Yetkin 1961, p. 360.
3. Saunders 2001, p. 98.

Sources

• Claude Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history, trans. J. Jones-Williams, (New York: Taplinger, 1968) 271 ff.
• Yetkin, S. Kemal (1961). "The Turbeh of Gumaç Hatun, a Seljūk Monument". Ars Orientalis. Vol. 4.
• Saunders, J. J. (2001). The History of the Mongol Conquests. University of Pennsylvania Press.

External links

• Mehmet Eti. "Examples of coinage from Kilij Arslan's first reign:Seljuk numismatics". Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2008.
• Mehmet Eti. "Examples of coinage from Kilij Arslan's second reign:Seljuk numismatics". Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2008.