Seljuk Empire

Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim empire (1037–1194)

thumb|491x491px|A front page of the Government Book. The Siyasatnama (, ), also known as the Siyar al-muluk (, ), is the most famous work attributed to Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of the Nizamiyyas (higher education institutions) in medieval Persia and vizier to the Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah. Nizam al-Mulk possessed "immense power" as the head administration for the Seljuk Empire over a period of 30 years and was responsible for establishing distinctly Persian forms of Islamic government and administration which would last for centuries. A great deal of his approach to governing