Masʿūd b. Maḥmūd of Ghazna

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A person

Names

Arabic: مسعود بن محمود بن سبكتكين = Masʿūd b. Maḥmūd b. Sabuktikīn 1
Persian: مسعود = Masʿūd 2

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
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw2	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 324 [Arabic].
2Mas‘ud 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, “Masʿūd b. Maḥmūd of Ghazna” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/11014.

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

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