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Local Politics in Eastern Iran under the Ghaznavids and Seljuks
Iranian Studies, 1978The political history of the Ghaznavid and Seljuk dynasties, which ruled much of Iran throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, is now fairly well known and recently has been drawn together in the excellent narrative of Professor Bosworth in the Cambridge History of Iran.
Richard W. Bulliet
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‘Utbi and the Ghaznavids at the Foot of the Mountain
Iranian Studies, 2005The beginnings of the genre of dynastic history in Islamic historiography can actually be traced to a single text1—a rhetorical tour de force in Arabic called Kitab al-Yamini, written by Abu Nasr a...
Ali Anooshahr
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The Later Ghaznavids: Splendour and Decay
Die Welt des Islams, 1979T. Nagel, Clifford Edmund Bosworth
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The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2021
Almost all of our information on the Ghaznavids comes from two contemporary chronicles (one in Persian and one in Arabic) and a divan (poetic anthology) from the early eleventh century. The Arabic text is the Tarikh-i Yamini written by Abu Nasr al-ʻUtbi, and the Persian chronicle is the Zayn al-Akhbar by Gardizi.
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Almost all of our information on the Ghaznavids comes from two contemporary chronicles (one in Persian and one in Arabic) and a divan (poetic anthology) from the early eleventh century. The Arabic text is the Tarikh-i Yamini written by Abu Nasr al-ʻUtbi, and the Persian chronicle is the Zayn al-Akhbar by Gardizi.
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The Architecture of the Ghaznavids and the Ghurids
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Religious Life in the Ghaznavids
2023Ghaznavids, in todays Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the XIth and XIIth Century. It is a Turkish dynasty that ruled for centuries. The Ghaznavids, who were known for protecting the Islamic faith and supporting Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, during their reign, followed the Hanafi sect, adhering to the Sunni understanding of Islam.
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Marriage, Political Alliance, and Imperial Polities in Early Ghaznavid History
Afghanistan, 2023This article considers how marriages were utilized in early Ghaznavid history to forge political alliances, establish relationships of power and to bind together different royal family households. Marriage was employed as a diplomatic tool to ease political tensions and to strengthen coalitions. The Ghaznavid ruler Maḥmūd (r.
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The Ghaznavid Period (5th/11th century)
1968The Samanid empire, outwardly so glorious, was inwardly however troubled by dissension and strife1,and this accounted for its falling an easy prey to the rapacity of Sultān Mahmūd and the Iligh-Khāns (Karakhānids, Āl-i Afrāsyāb). Sultān Mahmūd too relied for support on a guard of slaves belonging to various tribes and on volunteers (ghāzī or mutatavvi‹)
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