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Ghazna

غزنة

A great, populous city with many markets, from which the road enters the lands of India, which al-Idrisi lists on the Bust road. 1

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Ghazna is a great, populous city with many markets, and from it one enters the land of India. Al-Idrisi mentions it on the road to Bust. 2

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Suri ibn al-Husayn al-Ghuri

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Ala al-Din al-Husayn al-Ghuri (Jahan-Suz)· Ghurid dynasty· Suri ibn al-Husayn al-Ghuri

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 460
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.460
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Ala al-Din al-Husayn al-Ghuri (Jahan-Suz)

Ala al-Din al-Husayn ibn al-Husayn, king of Ghor called Jahan-Suz the World-Burner; succeeding his martyred brother Suri he mastered Ghor's mountains and Firuzkuh, proclaimed Sanjar in the khutba, marched on Ghazna in 547 AH and burned it in vengeance for the brothers Bahramshah killed, took Balkh, fought and was captured by Sultan Sanjar who released him back to Firuzkuh — and when his power swelled his nephews Ghiyath al-Din and Shihab al-Din rose, defeated him, yet seated him back on the throne as their puppet until his death in 556, when Ghiyath al-Din took the realm.