At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler · military
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · South Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sebuktigin, sultan of Ghazna, whom the caliph al-Qadir billah titled "Yamin al-Dawla wa Amin al-Milla" (Right Hand of the State and Trustee of the Community). 1
His policy in Khurasan
Ibn al-Jawzi relates that in 408 AH he complied with al-Qadir's call for the innovators to repent, and set in his governance in Khurasan and elsewhere the killing of the Mu'tazila, the Rafida, the Isma'ilis, the Qaramita, the Jahmiyya and the Mushabbiha, and their crucifixion and burning. He ordered them cursed from the pulpits and drove the people of innovation out of their homes. 1
The description of them as "innovators" is Ibn al-Jawzi's wording. No other view of these measures is recorded here, and it needs an additional source.
Connections
- Parent of
- السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي
- Participated in
- Mahmud of Ghazna Enters Rayy, 420· Al-Qadir's order of repentance for the Mu'tazila in Baghdad and Khurasan· Al-Qadir's recantation decree against the innovators (408 AH)· Mahmud of Ghazna breaks Somnath
- Related to
- The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur
People and things also explored
al-Qadir bi-llah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir· The Seljuk takeover of Khurasan and the defeat of Mas'ud the Ghaznavid· Mawdud ibn Mas'ud al-Ghaznawi· Baghdad· Nishapur· Rayy· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Mahmud of Ghazna Enters Rayy, 420
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.284
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Mahmud of Ghazna”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mahmud-ghaznawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.