Ghaznavid Empire
998 CE 1040 CE
No General Descriptions provided.
| af_ghur_principality vassalage to af_ghaznavid_emp |
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Home NGA: None
af_ghur_principality vassalage to af_ghaznavid_emp [1025, 1215]
"In the early 11th CE Ghaznavids introduced Islam and brought Gur into a state of loose vassalage to the sultans."
[1]
Then in 1118 CE Seljuks chose their own ruler for Gazna.
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[1]: (Bosworth 2012) Bosworth, Edmund C. 2012. GHURIDS. Encyclopaedia Iranica. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ghurids
- [998, 1040]
Professional spies
"Such a system, reinforced by an efficient postal system serving only the ruler, had been the very heart of Mahmud’s state. Now Nizam al-Mulk proposed to emulate it." However, Nizam al-Mulk failed to emulate it under the Seljuks. [Starr 2013]
state salary [998, 1040]
Abbasid government was "based on bureaucratic methods of taxation and disbursements to the court and the army. The central government staffs collected revenues from the countryside and made payments in cash and kind to the officials and soldiers who served the state. With the decline of Abbasid administration, the central bureaucracy progressively lost control of the countryside; with the advent of the Buwayhid dynasty in 945, soldiers were for the first time assigned iqta’s (land tax allotments) in payment for military service. The Ghaznavids adopted a similar system..." [1]
[1]: (Lapidus 2012, 250)
governed population [998, 1040]
Abbasid government was "based on bureaucratic methods of taxation and disbursements to the court and the army. The central government staffs collected revenues from the countryside and made payments in cash and kind to the officials and soldiers who served the state. With the decline of Abbasid administration, the central bureaucracy progressively lost control of the countryside; with the advent of the Buwayhid dynasty in 945, soldiers were for the first time assigned iqta’s (land tax allotments) in payment for military service. The Ghaznavids adopted a similar system..." [1]
[1]: (Lapidus 2012, 250)
Present [998, 1040]
"The Sultan Mahmud (d. 421/1030) founded a university in Ghazna that held several collections of books."Ghaznavid libraries read Celeste (2016) available online. [Gianni 2016]
Present [998, 1040]
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973–1048 CE): "Polymath from Khwarazm who flourished first at the court of the Khwarazmshahs in Gurganj (now Turkmenistan) and then at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni in Afghanistan. His works on astronomy, geodesy, history, and the social sciences established him as arguably the greatest scientific thinker between antiquity and the European Renaissance." [Starr 2013] Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Sina (980–1037 CE): "Philosopher, theologian, polymath, and author of the Canon of Medicine, which remained for half a millennium the classic medical text throughout the Muslim world and Europe." [Starr 2013] Abu Nasr Mansur Iraq: (960–1036 CE): "A prince of the Khwarazm royal house, mathematician, and astronomer who did pioneering work in spherical geometry..." [Starr 2013]
Present [998, 1040]
"The Sultan Mahmud (d. 421/1030) founded a university in Ghazna that held several collections of books. [Gianni 2016]
Present [998, 1040]
"The Sultan Mahmud (d. 421/1030) founded a university in Ghazna that held several collections of books." [Gianni 2016]
Present [998, 1040]
"The Sultan Mahmud (d. 421/1030) founded a university in Ghazna that held several collections of books" [Gianni 2016]
Uncoded [998, 1040]
"The Sultan Mahmud (d. 421/1030) founded a university in Ghazna that held several collections of books." [Gianni 2016]
Present [998, 1040]
Abolfazi Beyhaqi (995–1077 CE): "Independent-minded court historian at Ghazni, Afghanistan. Author of a thirty-volume study of the reigns of Mahmud and Masud of Ghazni, only three volumes of which survive." [Starr 2013]
Present [998, 1040]
Abul Hasan ibn Julugh Farukhi poet and musician. [Starr 2013] Abolqasem Ferdowsi (c.934–1020 CE): "Author from Tus in Khurasan (now Iran) who toiled for thirty years - happily under the patronage of the Samanids of Bukhara and unhappily under the patronage of Mahmud of Ghazni - to produce the Persian epic Shahnameh." [Starr 2013] Abul Qasim Unsuri (968–1039 CE): "Native of Balkh and the prodigiously prolific 'King of Poets' at Mahmud’s court at Ghazni, Afghanistan." [Starr 2013]