السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي

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Roles: sultan
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Overview

Mas'ud ibn Mahmud ibn Sebuktigin, sultan of Ghazna after his father Mahmud of Ghazna. ¹

The Seljuq defeat

Ibn al-Jawzi says that the Seljuqs defeated him in Jumada al-Akhira 430 AH, and took Khurasan and the Jibal. He fled, and his inkwells were taken. ¹

He then withdrew to Ghazna, and Tughrulbek returned to Nishapur, and the Ghuzz seized the whole of Khurasan. ²

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Child of: Mahmud of Ghazna
Participated in: استيلاء السلاجقة على خراسان وهزيمة مسعود الغزنوي

People and things also explored

The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Al-Qadir's recantation decree against the innovators (408 AH)· طغرل بك محمد بن ميكائيل السلجوقي· استيلاء السلاجقة على خراسان وهزيمة مسعود الغزنوي· Mahmud of Ghazna

Sources

al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi, j.8 p.400
al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi, j.8 p.413

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islam.museum contributors. “السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/masud-ibn-mahmud/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Sa'diyya of Nishapur, built by the amir Nasr ibn Sabuktegin, brother of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna — cited with the Bayhaqiyya by al-Subki and al-Suyuti as proof that madrasas stood before Nizam al-Mulk.