SELJUKIAN LADY MāH MALEK HāTUN IN THE DīWāN OF THE GREAT SELJUK LAUREATE AMīR MO‘EZZī

Amīr Mo‘ezzī (518-521/1124-1127), who writes poems for statesmen and was on duty with the title as Maliku’s-shu‘arā in Great Seljuk Palace for more than half a century is an important figure in the literature, history and culture of Seljuks. Thanks to his father, Burhānī, who was Sultan Alp Arslan’s poet, Mo‘ezzī lived around the palace and has a dīwān with 19.000 verses especially consisting of poems written for Seljuk sultans and statesmen such as Maliksāh (d. 485/1092), Barkyāruk (d. 498/1104), Mohammed Tapar (d. 511/1118) and Sancar (d. 522/1157) since his childhood. It is possible to find the information about many historical figures mentioned and not mentioned in the fundamental historical resources. One of these figures, who Mo‘ezzī praises in his Dīwān and about whom there was not enough information in the historical resources, is Māh Malek Hātun (Māh Malek Lady) (d. 487/1094), daughter of Maliksāh with Terken Hātun (Terken Lady) and the sister of Sultan Sancar. It has great importance to study how Māh Malek Hātun takes a place in Mo‘ezzī’s Dīwān and world of thought. On one hand some inferences can be gained in terms of characteristic features of Māh Malek Hātun that Mo‘ezzī selected to include in his work, on the other hand information can be gained about the existence of Māh Malek Hātun in literary and historic texts. In this context, it is clear that statements and information given by Mo‘ezzī about the praises of Māh Malek Hātun is notable in terms of both politics and history for Islamic and Turkish world