Background. Mahmud was born in the town of Ghazni in the region of Zabulistan (now present-day Afghanistan) on 2 November 971.His father, Sabuktigin, was a Turkic slave commander who laid foundations to the Ghaznavid dynasty in Ghazni in 977, which he ruled as a subordinate of the Samanids, who ruled Khorasan and Transoxiana.Mahmud's mother was a Tajik woman …

Mahmud Ghazan (5 November 1271 – 11 May 1304) (Persian: غازان خان, Ghazan Khan, sometimes archaically spelled as Casanus by the Westerners) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304. He was the son of Arghun, grandson of Abaqa Khan and great-grandson of Hulagu Khan, continuing a long line of rulers who were …

Executed by Ghazan: Khan, Ilkhan, Sultan: Mahmud: Ghazan: 5 November 1271 Son of Arghun: 1295–1304 1304 Khan, Ilkhan, Sultan, Muhammad Khodabandeh: Öljaitü: 1280 Son of Arghun: 1304 – 16 December 1316 16 December 1316 Khan, Ilkhan, Sultan: Abu Sa'id: Ala' ad-Din Bahadur 2 June 1305 Son of Öljaitü: 1316 – 1 December 1335 1 December ...

Al-Malik an-Nasir Nasir ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun (Arabic: الملك الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قلاوون), commonly known as an-Nasir Muhammad (Arabic: الناصر محمد), or by his kunya: Abu al-Ma'ali (أبو المعالى) or as Ibn Qalawun (1285–1341) was the ninth Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt who ruled between 1293–1294, 1299–1309, and 1310 until his ...

Timoer Lenk (Kesh, 9 april 1336 – Otrar, 19 januari 1405) (ook bekend als Timoer de Grote, Timoer de Manke, of in Europa als Tamerlane en Tamburlaine, verbasteringen van het Perzische Temur-i-lang en Temür in Turkse talen) was een Turks-Mongoolse krijgsheer en stichter van het Timoeridische rijk en de dynastie der Timoeriden.. Timoer Lenk werd geboren in Kesh, dat …

Cependant, Mahmud Ghazan tombe malade et renonce à sa campagne. Les chrétiens décident dès lors de rentrer à Chypre mais Jacques de Molay laisse une garnison templière à Arouad, placée sous le commandement du maréchal de l'ordre Barthélemy de Quincy , avec l'espoir de relancer une offensive l'année suivante. À partir de l'île, il ...

According to the Fozu Lidai Tongzai written by Nian Chang (b. 1282) Genghis Khan's viceroy Muqali was pacifying Shanxi in 1219, the homeland of Zen Buddhist monk Haiyun (海雲, 1203–1257), when one of Muqali's Chinese generals, impressed with Haiyun and his master Zhongguan's demeanor, recommended them to Muqali. Muqali then reported on the two to …

Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate. Muhammad Khodabandeh - formerly a Christian, he was the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316. Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266).

1300: Further Mongol raids into Palestine under Ghazan and Mulay. Jerusalem held by the Mongols for four months (see Ninth Crusade). Hetham II, King of Armenia, was allied to the Mongols and is reported to have visited Jerusalem where …

Güyük participated in the invasion of Eastern and Central Europe in 1236–1241 with other Mongol princes, including his cousin Batu and half-brother Kadan.He led his corps in the Siege of Ryazan and the lengthy siege of the Alanian capital Maghas.During the course of the conquest, Güyük quarreled violently with Batu at the victory banquet and screamed at him, "Batu is just an old …