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Ala al-Din Muhammad Khwarazm Shah besieged the city of Herat on the first of Rajab in the year 600. It was his first appearance in Khurasan after the death of Takash, and he then withdrew from it 1.
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- Herat
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- خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد
People and things also explored
Ibn Khurmail killed; Herat besieged again· Perishing of the Khwarazmshah on an island in the Caspian Sea· death of Khwarazmshah Tekish· Khwarazmshah takes Ghazna and its dependencies· Khwarazmshah seizes the Ghurid lands in Khurasan· the Khwarazmshah retakes what the Ghurids had seized· Khwarazmshah takes the Jibal· Khwarazmshah takes Kirman, Makran and Sind
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 285
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islam.museum contributors. “Khwarazmshah's siege of Herat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/khwarazm-herat-siege-600/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.