These victors at Dandanaqan refounded the city of Konya, where they let the new Mevlevi order of (*) whirling dervishes grow.
These people ruled during the life of Yunus Emre, a key poet for their language. According to Edward Gibbon, one of their leaders died trying to fire an arrow as his foot slipped, letting a Khwarezmian stab him. Their rulers used a book on governance whose writer, eventually assassinated by the original Assassins, was the vizier Nizam al-Mulk. These victors at Dandanaqan refounded the city of Konya, where they let the new Mevlevi order of (*) whirling dervishes grow. Decades after Tugrul led them, these Sunni Muslims defeated Romanus IV Diogenes' Byzantines under the command of Alp Arslan at Manzikert. For 10 points, name these semi-nomadic people who settled the Middle East and Anatolia in the 11th century, before the Ottomans supplanted them.
These people ruled during the life of Yunus Emre, a key poet for their language.
Seljuk Turks [or Seljuk Sultanate, empire, etc.; prompt on \"Turks\"; prompt on \"Sultantate of Rum\"]