Maḥmūd of Ghazna

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The third ruler, and first independent ruler, of the Ghaznavid dynasty.

Names

Arabic: محمود بن سبكتكين = Maḥmūd b. Sabuktikīn 1
Arabic: محمود بن سبكتكين يمين الدولة = Maḥmūd b. Sabuktakīn Yamīn al-Dawla 2
Arabic: محمود بن سبكتكين = Maḥmūd b. Sabuktakīn 3
Persian: محمود غزنوى = Maḥmūd Ghaznawī 4

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	1356	1997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw4	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 201، 363 [Arabic].
2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 3:61 [Arabic].
- Maḥmūd b. Subuktakīn Yamīn al-Dawla: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), III, 589-90 [English].
3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 3:180 [Arabic].
- Maḥmūd ibn Sabuktagīn: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), III, 690 [English].
4Mahmud of Ghazna: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 73 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Maḥmūd of Ghazna” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/10810.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Mary Papadopoulos: abstract and matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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