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Mawdud ibn Mas'ud al-Ghaznawi

مودود بن مسعود بن محمود بن سبكتكين

c. 1050 CE · 442 AH

Sultan of Ghazna after his uncle Muhammad ibn Mahmud: when his father Mas'ud died in 433 and Muhammad was acclaimed, Mawdud marched on his uncle, seized him and made Ghazna his own. He died in 442 and was succeeded by his uncle Abd al-Rashid ibn Mahmud 1.

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

Summary

Sultan Mawdud ibn Mas'ud ibn Mahmud ibn Sebuktegin, lord of Ghazna after his uncle Muhammad ibn Mahmud; when his father Mas'ud died in 433, his uncle Muhammad took his place — Mawdud marched on his uncle, seized him, returned to Ghazna and the matter settled for him. 2

His death

He died in 442 and his uncle 'Abd al-Rashid ibn Mahmud succeeded 3; the Shadharat gives his state ten years, his death in Rajab 441 at twenty-nine, and that they set up his son — a small boy — then deposed him. 4

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Ruler of
Ghaznavid Empire
Child of
السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي

People and things also explored

The Seljuk takeover of Khurasan and the defeat of Mas'ud the Ghaznavid· Mahmud of Ghazna· السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي· Ghaznavid Empire

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.113,148
  2. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.113
  3. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.148
  4. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 275
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The Seljuk takeover of Khurasan and the defeat of Mas'ud the Ghaznavid

In Jumada II 430 the Seljuks took Khurasan and Jibal, Mas'ud ibn Mahmud ibn Sebuktigin fled, and they took the inkwell. Tughril Beg Abu Talib Muhammad, his brother Dawud, Bahram? and Nayruz, sons of Mika'il, seized the lands and divided the outlying provinces among themselves. By 432 Mas'ud had gone back to Ghazna and Tughril to Nishapur, and the Ghuzz seized all of Khurasan. Their breaches of awe, their casting off of decorum and their killing of people went beyond all bounds: they targeted many scribes and others, killing some and coming to terms with others.