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Overview
Ghazna is a great, populous city with many markets, and from it one enters the land of India. Al-Idrisi mentions it on the road to Bust. 2
Connections
- Place of death of
- Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Suri ibn al-Husayn al-Ghuri
- Site of
- al-Duz takes Ghazna· death of Ghiyath al-Din, king of Ghur· Ghiyath al-Din al-Ghuri quits the Karramiyya· Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud al-Ghuri killed· Khwarazmshah takes Ghazna and its dependencies· Maḥmūd takes al-Bīrūnī to Ghazna· The Masʿūdic Canon dedicated· The book on India composed
People and things also explored
Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam· Maḥmūd takes al-Bīrūnī to Ghazna· The Masʿūdic Canon dedicated· The book on India composed· Al-Biruni at Qābūs's court, Gurgān· Al-Biruni takes refuge at Bukhara· The Karramiyya
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 460
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.460
- GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghazna”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ghazna/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-28.