Siyasatnama
The Siyasatnama (Classical Persian: سیاستنامه, romanized: Siyāsat-nāma, lit. 'Book of Politics'), also known as the Siyar al-muluk (Arabic: سير الملوك, romanized: Siyar al-mulūk, lit. 'Lives of Kings'), is the most famous work attributed to Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of the Nizamiyyas (higher education institutions) in medieval Persia and vizier to the Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah. Nizam al-Mulk possessed "immense power" as the head administration for the Seljuk Empire over a period of 30 years and was responsible for establishing distinctly Persian forms of Islamic government and administration which would last for centuries.