25 - The Sun of Fortune

After conquering Baghdad without a shot being fired, Tughrul sets forth to fulfill the promises made in Baghdad.  He aims to conquer all of Iraq, Syria, the Levant and even Egypt.  To overthrow the Fatimid Caliph in Cairo and truly re-unite the Muslim World. But though his initial campaigns in Iraq are successful, the Oghuz tribes find the climate of Iraq intolerable.  Revolts against the Seljuk court arise, and the aging and childless founder of the Great Seljuk Empire faces down his own destruction and the inevitable succession crisis that will surely follow his death...