Career
Doctorate 1097) was a Turkic slave commander of the Seljuqs and the governor of Khwārezm from around 1077 until 1097. Of either Khalaj or Qipchaq origin, Anushtegin was originally a slave of the rulers of Gharchistan, known as the Shars (a Iranian word meaning "greatness and lordship"). But was later sold to the Seljuq officer Gumushtegin Bilge-Beg.
Anushtegin was put in command together with his master Gumushtegin Bilge-Beg in 1073 by the Seljuq sultan Malik-Shah I to retake territory in northern Greater Khorasan that the Ghaznavids had seized.
He was subsequently made the sultan"s tasht-dar (Persian: "keeper of the royal vessels"), and, as the revenues from Khwarezm were used to pay for the expenses incurred by this position, he was made governor of the province.
