The youth, in contrast, was a “hothead,” Balian claimed, but also the most valuable of the captives: the son of a powerful official at Salah-ad-Din’s court in Damascus and a scion of one of the leading Seljuk families in Syria.
This part is set in 1178, but the Seljuk rule of Damascus and Aleppo had ended in 1105 and 1117, respectively. I think the author doesn’t appreciate that Oghuz Turk and Seljuk are not synonyms; one is an ethnic group and the other is a dynasty.
