The Anatolian branch of the Seljuk dynasty, established after the Battle of Manzikert (1071), it Islamized and Turkified the interior of Anatolia and was the principal predecessor state to the Ottoman Empire.
Dissolved into fragmentation after the Mongol victory at the Battle of Köse Dağ in 1243 CE made the sultanate a Mongol vassal; it disintegrated into rival Anatolian beyliks in the early 14th century, with the last sultan Giyaseddin Mesud II murdered circa 1308 CE and the sultanate ceasing to function.
A translation and study of the primary Seljuq chronicle, covering both the Great Seljuks and the Sultanate of Rum.
Detailed study of how the Seljuk conquest transformed Anatolia from a Greek Christian to a Turkic Muslim society.
Rumi composed his six-volume narrative poem of didactic stories and parables in Konya, the capital of the Sultanate of Rum, squarely within its lifespan (1077-1308) — the polity that gave the poet his name.