Mahmud of Ghazni
Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire from 998 to 1030
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Sultan who never lost a battle and turned a garrison town into a rival to Baghdad. Between 998 and 1030, Mahmud of Ghazni launched forty-six military campaigns and carved an empire stretching from Iran to the Punjab—where Persian court culture followed his armies and the ground was laid for a new center of power at Lahore.
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Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin took the throne of the Ghaznavid Empire in 998 at twenty-seven, after a short succession fight with his brother Ismail. He was the first ruler to claim the title Sultan, signaling raw authority while maintaining nominal ties to the Abbasid Caliphs in Baghdad. Over thirty-two years he launched thirty-five major campaigns and eleven minor ones, and by his death in 1030 his kingdom stretched from northwestern Iran through Transoxiana to the Punjab. He continued the Persianate bureaucratic and cultural traditions of the Samanids, and Ghazni itself became a magnet…
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