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1018 – 1092Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092)Died 14 October 1092, aged 74Nizam al-Mulk was the powerful Persian vizier who administered the Seljuk Empire for three decades under Alp Arslan and Malik-Shah I, founding the network of Nizamiyyah madrasas. He was stabbed to death near Nahavand while travelling in the sultan's retinue, in what is widely regarded as the first assassination carried out by the Nizari Ismaili order later known as the Hashashin. His death removed the chief stabilizing force in Seljuk government weeks before the sultan himself died.
1092Omar Khayyam's patron Nizam al-Mulk is assassinatedThe Seljuk grand vizier is murderedNizam al-Mulk, the grand vizier who had brought Khayyam to court, was assassinated in October 1092. His death was the first in a series of events that ended Khayyam's peaceful years.