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governor of Azerbaijan in Toghrïl (III) b. Arslan Shah’s reign (Rawand\, 356; Ibn
al-Ath\r, XI, 75, tr. Chronicle, Part 1, 353), a personal name conceivably referring
to an (unattested, but possible) Turkmen tribal sub-group in the western Siberian
steppes but perhaps simply an ethonym used as a personal name (Professor
Golden cites as an example of this last Gyula Németh, A honfaglaló magyarság
kialakulása, 2nd ed. Budapest 1991, 64–5: „Princeps Bissenorum nomine Kazar“,
i.e. a Pecheneg ruler named Khazar). It is likely that, as well as the majority Oghuz
tribesmen, the Turkmen following of the first Seljuq chiefs and rulers also included
Qïpchaq (Sauvaget, „Noms et surnoms de Mamelouks“, 52; G. Hazai, EI
art. „Kıpçak“; Golden, An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples, 144,
205, 225, 270ff.; Sümer-Yazgan, SA, II, 649; Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 455–6).
21. QODUN, commander of Malik Shah’s and Sanjar’s (0usayn\, 85, tr. 60
and n. 274; Ibn al-Ath\r, X, 205, tr. Annals, 253). Since Ibn al-Athir here spells
qud.n, it seems unlikely that the name is qadañ „speedy, quick“, whose attestations
are in any case late (Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 401). The name accordingly remains
mysterious, and can hardly be connected with qod- and its reflexive qodun
„abandon, leave“, cf. Clauson, ED, 595–6, 603. Professor Golden suggests the
possibility that it might be Qoduq, citing (archaic) Modern Turkish koduk „newlyborn
donkey, foal“, see J.W. Redhouse, A Turkish-English lexicon, London 1890,
repr. Constantinople 1921, 1482, and Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 464.
22. QUMACH, commander of Sanjar’s (Rawand\, 177; 0usayn\, 94, tr. 65; Ibn
al-Ath\r, X, 551, tr. Chronicle, Part 1, 202), Pers. qumach, qumash „fine cloth“ hence
perhaps „wearer of red clothing“ (Doerfer, TMEN, III, 509–11 no. 1526; Sümer-
Yazgan, SA, I, 159–60, II, 74; Rásonyi-Baski, II, 493).
23. RASUL-TEGIN, governor in Fars for Toghrïl Beg and apparently a son
of one of the Sultan’s paternal uncles, i.e. a first cousin, involved in fighting in
Khuzistan in 449/1057–8 and minter of a coin at Istakhr in 455/1063 (Ibn al-Ath\r,
IX, 634–5; N. Lowick, „A gold coin of Rasulteg\n, Seljuk ruler in Fars“, NC, 7th
Ser., VIII [1968], 225–30; Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 612). The name unites the familiar
Turkish title tegin (see above, no. 12, Gümüsh-tegin) with Arabic rasul „messenger,
envoy“, with all its religious connotations of the Prophet Mu1ammad’s divine
mission; the usage here of rasul is presumably intentional, when there could have
been used the old Turkish term, known from as far back as the Orkhon inscriptions,
yalavach „envoy, messenger“, in later mediaeval Islamic times found with
both secular and religious meanings (Clauson, ED, 921; Doerfer, TMEN, IV,
106–7 no. 1807).
24. SATMAZ, commander in the service of Sulayman Shah b. Mu1ammad (I)
and then of Arslan Shah b. Toghrïl (II) (Bundar\, 243; Rawand\, 275; 0usayn\, 145,
tr. 96) „he who is not to be sold, cannot be sold“, i.e. because of his value (Clauson,
ED, 798–9; Sümer-Yazgan, SA, II, 666; Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 644). Pro-