{{Short description|Seljuk prince}} {{Infobox person | name =Qutalmish | image = | caption = | known_for = Ancestor of the Seljuq sultans of Rum | predecessor = Arslan Yabgu | successor = Suleiman ibn Qutalmish | other_names = | family = House of Seljuq | spouse= | father = Arslan Yabgu | mother = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = }}

'''Qutalmish ibn Arslan Isra'il''' ({{langx|tr|Kutalmış Bey}}, {{langx|trk-x-oldanat|قوتالمش بگ}}, {{langx|fa|قتلمش}}) (alternative spellings: '''Qutalmis''', '''Kutalmish''', {{lang|tr|'''Kutalmış'''}}) was a Turkic prince who was a member of Seljukid house in the 11th century. His son Kutalmışoğlu Suleiman, founded the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia.

==Sultanate of Rûm== Kutalmish was the son of Arslan Yabgu and a cousin of Tughril and played a vital role in the conquests of the Seljuk Turks. In 1046, he was sent with an army by Tughril to force back the Byzantine army at Ganja and was victorious.{{sfn|Sicker|2000|p=53}} (see Battle of Ganja (1046))

He supported a rebellion against Tughril and contested the succession to the throne with Alp Arslan. (''see'' Battle of Damghan (1063)) According to the historian Ali ibn al-Athir, Kutalmish knew the sciences of the stars.{{sfn|Ihsanoglu|2005|p=267}} He had five sons, among them Mansur<ref name="PBW">{{cite web |title=Mansur ibn Kutalmish |url=http://db.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/pbw2011/entity/person/111711 |website=Prosography of the Byzantine World |publisher=King's Digital Lab |access-date=11 April 2022}}</ref> and Suleiman, who was recognized as Sultan of Rûm by Malik Shah I in 1084.{{sfn|Köprülü|1992|p=72}}

==Name== "Kut Almış" means "he that has received fortune (majesty)".{{sfn|Juvaynī|Boyle|1958|p=45}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==Sources== *{{cite book |chapter=Institutionalisation of Science in the Medreses of pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Turkey |first=Ekmeleddin |last=Ihsanoglu |title=Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science |editor-first1=Gürol |editor-last1=Irzik |editor-first2=Güven |editor-last2=Güzeldere |publisher=Springer |year=2005 }} *{{cite book|title=The History of the World-conqueror|volume=1|page=45|first1=ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malik |last1=Juvaynī |first2=John Andrew |last2=Boyle|year=1958}} *{{cite book |last=Köprülü |first=Mehmed Fuad |title=The Seljuks of Anatolia: their history and culture according to local Muslim sources |publisher=University of Utah Press |year=1992 }} *{{cite book |first=Martin |last=Sicker |title=The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna |publisher=Greenwood Publishing |year=2000 }}

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Category:People from the Sultanate of Rum Category:11th-century nobility