Aq Sunqur al-Ahmadili

Aq Sunqur al-Ahmadili († May 25, 1133 ) was a Turkish officer of the Seljuks and as their vassal a ruler of Maragha .

Al-Ahmadili was a freedman of the Prince of Maragha, Ahmadil al-Kurdi , the 1114/15 assassinated the assassin has fallen victim to what he obviously the rule was able to take over the city immediately. During the revolt of the ruling brother Masud against Sultan Mahmud II , Maragha was occupied by Aq Sunqur al-Bursuqi in 1120 , but after the end of the revolt the Sultan returned it to al-Ahmadili the following year.

In succession war that followed the death Sultan Mahmud II. 1131, al-Ahmadil the party of in Azerbaijan ruling prince Dawud against his uncle Tughril II. Seized, which, however, already recognized as a legitimate successor of Caliph Al-Mustarshid the and in Eastern Persia ruling family seniors Sultan Sandjar had. Dawud was nevertheless proclaimed sultan by his vizier and al-Ahmadili was appointed his atabeg . Their army was defeated by Tughril near Hamadan in July / August 1132 , who was subsequently able to occupy Azerbaijan. Thereupon Dawud and al-Ahmadili allied themselves with Masud in Tabriz , who succeeded in taking Iraq and received the official recognition of the caliph as sultan. The following year, Masud was able to recapture Azerbaijan for his nephew Dawud and move into Hamadan. Al-Ahmadili surrendered after a brief siege of his city and had to recognize Masud as sultan, who left him in his principality.

Like his master once before, Al-Ahmadili was murdered by "Batinites" ( assassins ) in his tent on May 25, 1133 when he was camped near Hamadan . The act was initiated by Tughril's vizier, who himself was a follower of this Shiite sect, whose former main castle Alamut is about four hundred kilometers east of Maragha. The descendants of al-Ahmadili continued to rule Maragha until it was destroyed by the Mongols in the early 13th century.

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• “News from the rule of the Seljuks” (Akhbār al-dawla al-saljūqiyya) , ed. and translated into English by Clifford Edmund Bosworth , The History of the Seljuq State (2011), pp. 70-71, 73.