Khwarazmshah takes Transoxiana and restores Khurasan

ملك خوارزم شاه ما وراء النهر وإصلاح خراسان

c. 1208 CE · 605 AH

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Muhammad Khwarazmshah took Transoxiana while restoring order to a Khurasan torn by feuds since Shihab al-Din's death 1.

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1190120012101220 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Ala al-Din Muhammad Khwarazm Shah took possession of Transoxiana. Khurasan had been engulfed by strife after the killing of Shihab al-Din, and he restored it and made it secure 1.

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death of Khwarazmshah Tekish· Shihab al-Din's siege of Khwarazm and his defeat by the Khita· Perishing of the Khwarazmshah on an island in the Caspian Sea· Ibn Khurmail killed; Herat besieged again· Khwarazmshah takes Ghazna and its dependencies· Khwarazmshah seizes the Ghurid lands in Khurasan· the Khwarazmshah retakes what the Ghurids had seized· Khwarazmshah's siege of Herat

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 333
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death of Khwarazmshah Tekish

Ala al-Din Tekish ibn Il-Arslan died, lord by then of most of Khurasan, the lands beyond, Isfahan and the Jibal — the eastern half of the Islamicate world. His son Qutb al-Din Muhammad, already laqabed Ala al-Din, succeeded him.