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Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. |
| Author: C.E. Bosworth | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 344 | |
| Cover: Hardcover | |
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9.0 inch x 5.5 inch |
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Weight 570 gm |
| Edition: 2015 | |
| ISBN: 9788121505734 | |
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NAK674 |
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About the
Book
This book deals with the origins and early history of
the dynasty of Turkish slave origin which in the first half of the eleventh
century AD, became a mighty power
controlling lands from western Persiato the Panjab and from' what is now the northern Uzbekistan
Republic to the shores of the Indian Ocean in Baluchistan and Sind. The book is
based on the original Persian and Arabic sources for the period, and describes
the process by which, from a Turkish steppe background, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna and his son Mas'ud
assembled by force of arms the most powerful empire known in the Islamic world
since the disintegration of the Baghdad caliphate. Much- of the Sultans' energy
was devoted to the exploitation of India, with its rich temple treasures and
reserves of slave manpower, and Mahmud in particular achieved a great
contemporary reputation as a hammer of pagans and heretics, before the attacks
of a new wave of Turkish invaders from Central Asia, the Ozhuz,
overran the western provinces of their empire by 1040.
About the
Author
Prof. C.E. Bosworth F.BA is Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies at the
University of Manchester and a former President of the British Society for
Middle Eastern Studies. His many books cover the fields of the history of the
Iranian world and Central Asia and the history, literature and culture of the
Arab world.
Preface
The genesis of this book was in a doctoral thesis, The transition from Ghaznavid
to Seljuq power in the Islamic East, submitted
to Edinburgh University in 1961. I must acknowledge with deep gratitude much
help and encouragement over a period of several years from the Rev Dr W.
Montgomery Watt and Mr J. R.
Walsh of Edinburgh. It was from the latter that I first acquired a specific
interest in the eastern Iranian world, a field whose study I have since found
highly rewarding. Dr J. A.
Boyle of Manchester has kindly made certain suggestions, in particular, on the
correct forms of some Turkish names. The libraries of the Universities of St
Andrews, Edinburgh and Durham, and that of the School of Oriental and African
Studies in London, have been most helpful over the lending and pro- curing of books, and the Suleymaniye Umumi Katubhane in Istanbul and
the India Office Library in London have provided microfilms of manuscripts in their
possession. Finally, my thanks are due to the Edinburgh University Press for
their publication of the book and to the printers for their skilful handling of
a fairly difficult manuscript.
Contents
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Note on transliteration |
x |
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Abbreviations employed |
xi |
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Introduction |
3 |
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Note on the sources |
7 |
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Part
I. |
The Ghaznavid empire at its Zenith under Mahmud |
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Chapter I |
The Origins of the Ghaznavid
empire |
27-44 |
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Chapter II |
The Structure and Administrations |
48-91 |
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Chapter III |
The Army |
98-126 |
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Chapter IV |
Court life and Culture |
129-139 |
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Part
II |
Khurasan under Ghaznavid
rule |
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Chapter V |
Khurasan and its capital Nishapur |
145-157 |
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Chapter VI |
The Social structure of Nishapur |
163-200 |
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Part
III |
The coming
of the Seljugs and their triumph in Mas ud’s reigh |
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Chapter VII |
The origins of the Seljugs |
206 |
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Chapter VIII |
The Succession to the Sultanate |
227-234 |
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Chapter IX |
The struggle with the Turkmens and the downfall of
Ghaznavid power in Khurasan |
241-266 |
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Notes |
269 |
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Appendix |
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A list of the rulers in Ghazna
963-1099 |
307 |
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Bibliography |
308 |
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Index |
315 |
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