Biography of mahmud ghazni e

Mahmud of Ghazni October 2, — April 30, C. Mahmud turned the former provincial city of Ghazni into the wealthy capital of an extensive empire which included modern-day Afghanistan , Pakistan , most of Iran and parts of northwest India. He was also the first ruler to carry the title Sultan. He is remembered as a hero of Islam by some, as a defiler of Hindu , Jain , and Buddhist shrines by others this legacy may have contributed to the destruction of ancient Buddhist shrines by the taliban in Afghanistan in , although other Muslims opposed this destruction.

Who was the father of mahmud of ghazni

By establishing Muslim rule over a substantial part of the Indian Sub-Continent, he permanently changed the nature of sub-continental politics, religion, and culture. Arguably, the partition of India into the Muslim majority and Hindu majority states of Pakistan and India in , was a consequence of Mahmud of Ghazni's military success. Mahmud's grandfather was Alptigin, a Turkic slave-guard of the Samanids, in Balkh, who crossed the Hindu Kush mountains to seize Ghazni from the declining Samanid Kingdom, located strategically on the road between Kabul and Kandahar.

Alptigin was succeeded in C. According to Ferishta, Mahmoud's mother was a Persian noble from Zabulistan; [2] although, this information contradicts Ferdowsi 's satire of Mahmud for "being descended from slaves on both maternal and paternal side. Sabuktigin was recognized by the Caliph in Baghdad as governor of his dominions.

Sultan Alptigin died in C.