The present study examines the role of the migration of Iranian elites and literati in the formation and development of historiography within the domain of the Seljuks of Anatolia. Despite the establishment of the Sultanate of Rum at the beginning of the seventh/fourteenth century AH/13th century CE, historiography in this region developed with some delay, and the earliest historical texts emerged under the direct influence of the Persian historiographical tradition. The central question of this research is to what extent this delay is related to the transfer of Iranian historiographical models by migrating scholars. Based on an analysis of primary sources and recent studies, the research demonstrates that Iranian literati—previously nurtured within the Persian literary and bureaucratic tradition—served in the Seljuk court of Anatolia as official writers, secretaries, and chroniclers, and through the transmission of Iranian legitimacy narratives and courtly historiographical models, they laid the foundations of the region’s historiography. Ultimately, the study concludes that the historiography of the Seljuks of Anatolia forms part of the broader legacy of Iranian written culture, and that examining it without considering the transregional scholarly and cultural networks of the Seljuk era would provide an incomplete picture of the political and identity developments of the period.