السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي

السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي

c. 1040 CE · c. 432 AH

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Roles
sultan
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Overview

Mas'ud ibn Mahmud ibn Sebuktigin, sultan of Ghazna after his father Mahmud of Ghazna. 1

The Seljuq defeat

Ibn al-Jawzi says that the Seljuqs defeated him in Jumada al-Akhira 430 AH, and took Khurasan and the Jibal. He fled, and his inkwells were taken. 1

He then withdrew to Ghazna, and Tughrulbek returned to Nishapur, and the Ghuzz seized the whole of Khurasan. 2

Connections

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Child of
Mahmud of Ghazna
Parent of
Mawdud ibn Mas'ud al-Ghaznawi
Participated in
The Seljuk takeover of Khurasan and the defeat of Mas'ud the Ghaznavid

People and things also explored

The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· 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· طغرل بك· Ghaznavid Empire· The Seljuk takeover of Khurasan and the defeat of Mas'ud the Ghaznavid

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.400
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.413
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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islam.museum contributors. “السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/masud-ibn-mahmud/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.

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The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Sa'diyya of Nishapur, built by the amir Nasr ibn Sabuktegin, brother of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna — cited with the Bayhaqiyya by al-Subki and al-Suyuti as proof that madrasas stood before Nizam al-Mulk.