Kilij Arslan IV

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Kilij Arslan IV (Arabic: ركن الدين قلج ارسلان بن كيخسرو‎, Rukn al-Dīn Qilij Arslān bin Kaykhusraw; Turkish: IV. Kılıç Arslan) was Seljuq Sultan of Rûm after the death of his father Kaykhusraw II in 1246. For part of his tenure as sultan he ruled with his two brothers Kaykaus II and Kayqubad II. He was executed in 1266 by the Pervane Mu‘in al-Din Suleyman.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Eti. Examples of coinage from Kilij Arslan's first reign: Seljuk numismatics.
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Eti. Examples of coinage from Kilij Arslan's second reign: Seljuk numismatics.

Preceded by Kaykhusraw II

Sultan of Rüm 1248–1265

Succeeded by Kaykhusraw III