Seljuk (Arabic: السلاجقة, Turkish: Selçuk; also Seljuk, Seldjuq, Seljuq) was the eponymous hero of the Seljuks. He was the son of a certain Dukak surnamed Timuryaligh -of the iron bow- and either the chief or an eminent member from the Kınık tribe of the Oghuz Turks. In about 985 the Seljuk clan split off from the bulk of the Tokuz-Oghuz, a confederacy of nine clans long settled between the Aral and Caspian Seas, and set up camp on the right bank of the lower Syr Darya(Jaxartes), in the direction of Jend, near Kzyl Orda in present day south-central Kazakhstan where they were converted to Islam.