Editing Kerbogha (section)

== Early life ==

Kerbogha was a [[Seljuks|Seljuk Turk]] who owed his success to his military talent.<ref>Bradbury, Jim. ''The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare''. [[Routledge]], 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1C54r8GgrUIC&pg=PA55&dq=kerbogha+atabeg+turk&hl=tr&sig=DUPERrgdQH5AKG_fkHUPz317B2Y p. 55]</ref> He supported [[Malik-Shah I]]'s wife [[Terken Khatun (wife of Malik-Shah I)|Terken Khatun]] and her four-year-old son [[Mahmud I of Great Seljuk|Mahmud I]] who was installed on the throne at [[Baghdad]].{{sfn|Bosworth|1968|p=103}} Kerbogha was sent with an army to secure [[Isfahan]] and to arrest [[Berkyaruq]].{{sfn|Peacock|2015|p=76}} However, Mahmud's supporters were defeated by Berkyaruq' forces at Isfahan in January 1093.{{sfn|Bosworth|1997|pp=12–13}} A month later, he joined the Seljuk prince Ismail ibn Yaquti against Berkyaruq army which was victorious once more. Later on, Kerbogha joined Berkyaruq, then he was sent in 1094 to fight against [[Tutush I]] who declared himself Sultan in [[Syria]], but he was imprisoned along with his brother Altuntaş in [[Aleppo]] then [[Homs]]. Upon the death of Tutush, he was released by [[Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan]].

In 1095, he served under the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] [[Caliph]] [[Al-Mustazhir]] in his attempted reconquest of [[Aleppo]]. In 1096, he managed to capture [[Harran]], [[Nisbis]] and [[Mosul]], in which he ended the [[Uqaylid Dynasty]] rule.