Danishmend Gazi

Danishmend Gazi
Bey
Emir
Gazi
Melik of the Danishmends
Reign1071 – 1085
PredecessorPosition established
SuccessorGazi Gümüshtigin
Died1085
Cappadocia
(modern-day Turkey)
FatherAli Taylu al-Türkmānī
ReligionIslam

Danishmend Gazi (Persian: دانشمند غازی), Danishmend Taylu, or Dānishmend Aḥmed Gāzī (died 1085), was the Turkoman general of the Seljuks and later founder of the beylik of Danishmends. After the Turkic advance into Anatolia that followed the Battle of Manzikert, his dynasty controlled the north-central regions in Anatolia.