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After the fall of Ghazni in 1163, the Ghaznavids established themselves in Lahore, their regional capital for Indian territories since its conquest by Mahmud of Ghazni, which became the new capital of the Late Ghaznavids.
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Two military families arose from the Turkic Slave-Guards of the Samanids—the Simjurids and Ghaznavids—who ultimately proved disastrous to the Samanids. The Simjurids received land grant awarded with a rank or title, called an appanage, in the Kohistan region of eastern Khorasan. Alp Tigin founded the Ghaznavid fortunes when he established himself a...
Mahmud's son Mas'ud was unable to preserve the empire and following a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Dandanaqan in (1040) lost all the Ghaznavid lands in Iran and Central Asia to the Seljuks and plunged the realm into a "Time of troubles". Mas'ud's son Ibrahim who re-established a truncated empire on a firmer basis by arriving at a peace agreem...
The Ghaznavid Empire grew to cover much of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and northwest India and Pakistan, and the Ghaznavids are generally credited with launching Islam into Hindu-dominated India. In addition to the wealth accumulated through raiding Indian cities, and exacting tribute from Indian Rajas the Ghaznavids also benefited from their po...
Alptigin (963-977)Sebük Tigin, or Sebuktigin (Abu Mansur)(977-997)Ismail of Ghazni (997-998)Mahmud of Ghaznavid (Yamin ud-Dawlah)(998-1030)Bosworth, Clifford Ed. The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994–1040.Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1963.Bosworth, Clifford Ed. The Later Ghaznavids: Splendour and Decay, The Dynasty in Afghanistan and Northern India 1040–1186. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0231044288.Canfield, Robert L. Turko-Persia in historical perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0521390941.Christian, David. A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1998. ISBN 978-0631208143.People also ask
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The Ghaznavids were a Turkish slave-soldier dynasty ( mamluk or ghulam) who ruled a sultanate that rose to dominance in eastern Iran, central Afghanistan, and modern-day Pakistan during the eleventh and twelfth centuries c.e. Though on the periphery of the Muslim world at the time, this sultanate was to play a major role in the formation of ...
Dec 15, 2001 · GHAZNAVIDS, an Islamic dynasty of Turkish slave origin (366-582/977-1186), which in its heyday ruled in the eastern Iranian lands, briefly as far west as Ray and Jebāl; for a while in certain regions north of the Oxus, most notably, in Kᵛārazm; and in Baluchistan and in northwestern India.
The Ghaznavids. The Ghaznavid emirate was established in Afghanistan in the late tenth century AD, out of the disintegrating rule of the Samanid emirs. Various local rulers around Afghanistan and in Baluchistan were brought under Ghaznavid control and a conglomerate empire was constructed out of tribes and sedentary states in Transoxania.
The Ghaznavid dynasty or the Ghaznavid Empire was a Persianate Muslim dynasty and empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruling at its greatest extent, large parts of Iran, Khorasan, and the northwest Indian subcontinent from 977 to 1186.
Ghazni is a city in southeastern Afghanistan, which served as the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire from 977 to 1163.
