Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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According to the classical understanding and the information of the chronicles of that time, the state of Khārizmshāhs was worn out mainly by the battles with the Mongols. Finally, they came to Anatolia and met the Seljuks of Turkey before Yassıçemen in 627/1230 and lost their chance to recover. However, the main reasons for the collapse of the Khārizmshāhs were the weakening of the bureaucratic tradition and the deterioration of the financial system. It is known that the Khārizmshāhs were a state located at one of the most important and active junctions of the Middle Ages and had financial opportunities for trade and agriculture. Due to the loss of these opportunities and the deterioration of the administrative system with abuses, they began to lose their power. On the other hand, there were statesmen and emirs around Jalāl al-Dīn Khārizmshāh who had the power to direct the networks of relations. The greed and internal conflicts of the statesmen can be found in the process that led to the collapse. The purpose of this article is to examine the administrative crises caused by the vizierate, the financial councils and the scribes, and the disruptions caused by the deterioration of the financial system in the last periods of the Khārizmshāhs state. In fact, the administrative and financial regression process has almost never been discussed in contemporary studies on the Khārizmshāhs. İbrahim Kafesoğlu even admits that this situation was neglected in his monograph on the Khārizmshāhs. In the study, the information provided by contemporary authors is interpreted using the method of document analysis, and in particular, the process of decay shaped around Jalāl al-Dīn Khārizmshāh is subjected to prosopographic analysis. If necessary, partial evaluations of modern research on the subject are also consulted.