قطب الدين أيبك

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Roles: Ruler · military
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: South Asia · Persia & Central Asia
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Qutb al-Din Aybak, a mamluk of Shihab al-Din al-Ghuri and his deputy in the lands of India. He held the iqta of the emirs of Ghazna. ¹

When his master was killed in 602 AH, the vizier Mu'ayyad al-Mulk ordered everyone who held an iqta from him to return it, and they distributed money among them. ¹

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Participated in: Shihab al-Din's victory over the king of Hind and the taking of Ajmer (588 AH)

People and things also explored

Prithviraj, king of Hind· Shihab al-Din al-Ghuri· Shihab al-Din's victory over the king of Hind and the taking of Ajmer (588 AH)

Sources

al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.303

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islam.museum contributors. “قطب الدين أيبك”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/qutb-al-din-aybak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Prithviraj, king of Hind

The king of Hind at Ajmer — identified in modern histories as Prithviraj Chauhan — who had routed Shihab al-Din in 583 and fell into his trap in 588: taken standing on his elephant at dawn, he answered the famous question ('had you taken me?') with 'I had a golden fetter for you', heard 'we give you no rank worth a fetter', and was killed as Ajmer passed to Aybak.