An Attempt for the Establishing of the Futuwwa Organization in Great Seljuks Period in Baghdad

Futuwwa with corresponding to represents the world of young people who are characterized as fetā or fityān with certain qualities such as valour, bravery, generosity and altruism and some ethical qualities. In time, it merged with sufism and acquired a mystical character. On that sense, it was an important place in the political, social, economic, religious and scholarly life of the Middle Ages Islamic world. As of the second half of the 11th century, it continued to exist under the patronage of the Great Seljuks, who was dominated over the large part of the Islamic world. During the Great Seljuks period, the culture of futuwwa experienced significant developments both intellectual-religious and social-economic as well as literary. As a matter of fact, Rais al-Fityān Hasan b. Said al-Menī‘ī and Abu al-Hasan al-Isfarāyinī who members of the wealthy class with al-Qushayrī and Abdullah al-Ansarī, who wrote works on futuwwa, are examples of this. On the other hand, the baker Ibn Rasūlī and the cloth seller Abd al-Qadir al-Hashimī, in Baghdad, offer important information on how the futuwwa is organized at this time. This article will focus on the culture of futuwwa in the early periods of the Great Seljuks in the light of in the event of the year 473 (1081), in Baghdad