As with Saladin, the history of “Alp Arslan” (real name: Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri) has been heavily whitewashed in order to improve the image of Muslims and worsen that of Christians. Below I discuss how several academics, as well as ChatGBT, sing his praises — even though contemporary chronicles present him as a bloodthirsty “antichrist” figure devoted to the mass slaughter of Christians and the destruction of thousands of churches: