Sabuktakin or Sübüktegin was a Turkic commander in the service of the Buyid dynasty. His power was such that he defied the Buyid ruler Bakhtiyar Izz al-Dawla, and even rose in revolt against him in 974, seizing control of Baghdad and threatening to overthrow Buyid rule in Iraq completely. His career was cut short by his own death in late 974. His successor, Alptakin, was defeated by the Buyids and fled to Damascus, where he eventually joined the Fatimids.
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Sabuktakin or Sübüktegin was a Turkic commander in the service of the Buyid dynasty. His power was such that he defied the Buyid ruler Bakhtiyar Izz al-Dawla, and even rose in revolt against him in 974, seizing control of Baghdad and threatening to overthrow Buyid rule in Iraq completely. His career was cut short by his own death in late 974. His successor, Alptakin, was defeated by the Buyids and fled to Damascus, where he eventually joined the Fatimids.
==Life== Sabuktakin was a Turkic slave who was set free by the first Buyid ruler of Iraq, Mu'izz al-Dawla (), and became, according to the historian Heribert Busse, the latter's "right-hand man". Sabuktakin first appears in 948/9, when was sent to aid Rukn al-Dawla in Rayy, which was threatened by the Sallarids and Samanids. There he also had to face the revolt of a Daylamite contingent in his army, led by a certain Burarish. Appointed to the post of chamberlain (), Sabuktakin was primarily the commander of his fellow Turkic slave-soldiers (, sing. ), but in addition he also functioned as commander-in-chief of the entire army (). He amassed a huge fortune, and built a large palace in the Mukharrim quarter of Baghdad. At the time of his death, he is reported to have possessed 10,000 camels and 4,000 brocade garments, including 2,000 of fine silk and 500 prized pieces from the state factories of the Byzantine Empire.
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