[[File:Ruler in Turkic dress (long braids, fur hat, boots, fitting coat), in the Maqamat of al-Hariri, 1237 CE, probably Baghdad.jpg|thumb|Ruler in Turkic military dress: long braids, ''sharbush'' fur hat, boots, close-fitting coat.<ref name="FB232"/> ''Maqamat'' by Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122), a high government official of the Seljuks. Mesopotamia, 1237 copy.<ref name="FB232">{{cite journal |last1=Flood |first1=Finbarr Barry |title=A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus |journal=Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia |year=2017 |publisher=Austrian Academy of Science Press |page=232 |url=https://www.academia.edu/35061254}}</ref>]] '''Shiḥna''' ({{langx|ar|شحنة}}) was a medieval Islamic term meaning, roughly, "military administrator." The term was used particularly for the Seljuk Turks' representative in Iraq, who exerted the Seljuks' power over the Abbasid caliph. The Seljuks themselves ruled their empire, which included most of southwest Asia in the 11th century and after, from Iran in Isfahan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=ALPTEKIN |first1=COJKUN |title=The Reign of Zangi |date=1972 |publisher=University of London |pages=33–44 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28653/1/10672813.pdf}}</ref>
==List of ''shihna''s==
===Baghdad=== * Bursuq the Elder (April 1060 – 1061), the first ''shihna'' of Baghdad<ref name=Rahmati2018>{{cite journal |last1=رحمتی |first1=محسن |title=خاندان برسقی و تحولات عصر سلجوقی |journal=پژوهش های تاریخی |date=March 2018 |volume=10 |issue=1 |doi=10.22108/jhr.2017.83577 |url=http://jhr.ui.ac.ir/article_22219_edc282903a8907c7635ca1f7b2a703a2.pdf |language=fa}}</ref> * Oshin (1061–?), a ''ghulam''<ref name=Rahmati2018 /> * Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi<ref name=Rahmati2018 /> * Ilghazi (until 1104) * Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi (1124-1125) * Baran-Qush Zakawi (1125-1126) * Zengi (1126-1127)
==References== {{reflist}} *"Shihna." ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' 3rd ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993.
Category:Islamic terminology Category:People from the Seljuk Empire Category:Government of the Abbasid Caliphate