Mahmud of Ghazna
محمود بن سبكتكين الغزنوي
Yamin al-Dawla wa-Amin al-Milla — Sultan Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin of Ghazna, bearer of the caliph al-Qadir's honorifics, who emulated the 408 recantation decree in Khurasan with killing, crucifixion, burning and expulsion of the 'innovators' 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler · military
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · South Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sebuktigin, sultan of Ghazna, whom the caliph al-Qadir billah titled "Yamin al-Dawla wa Amin al-Milla" (Right Hand of the State and Trustee of the Community). 1
His policy in Khurasan
Ibn al-Jawzi relates that in 408 AH he complied with al-Qadir's call for the innovators to repent, and set in his governance in Khurasan and elsewhere the killing of the Mu'tazila, the Rafida, the Isma'ilis, the Qaramita, the Jahmiyya and the Mushabbiha, and their crucifixion and burning. He ordered them cursed from the pulpits and drove the people of innovation out of their homes. 1
The description of them as "innovators" is Ibn al-Jawzi's wording. No other view of these measures is recorded here, and it needs an additional source.
Connections
- Parent of
- السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي
- Participated in
- Al-Qadir's recantation decree against the innovators (408 AH)
- Related to
- The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur
People and things also explored
استيلاء السلاجقة على خراسان وهزيمة مسعود الغزنوي· القادر بالله أحمد بن إسحاق بن المقتدر· Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Al-Qadir's recantation decree against the innovators (408 AH)· السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi, j.7 p.284
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