Ismail of Ghazni (Persian: اسماعیل غزنوی) was the emir of Ghazna, reigning for 7 months, from 5 August 997 until 998.[3] He succeeded his father emir Sabuktigin, who died of an illness acquired in Balkh during a campaign in the Samanid civil war. Ismail was designated his successor by Sabuktigin on his death-bed, while Mahmud, the older brother who was involved in the Samanid civil war, was stationed in Nishapur.
Upon receiving this news Mahmud of Ghazni contested Ismail's right to the throne and divested his charge of Nishapur to his uncle Borghuz and younger brother Nur-ud-Din Yusuf and marched upon Ghazna in what is now Afghanistan.
Mahmud won the Battle of Ghazni and took the crown from Ismail. Ismail spent the rest of his life confined to a fort in Guzgan. The reason behind Sabuktigin's choice to appoint Ismail as heir over the more experienced and older Mahmud is uncertain. It may have been due to Ismail's mother being the daughter of Sabuktigin's old master, Alptigin.[4]
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^"ESMĀʿĪL, b. Seboktegīn" Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 August 2014
^Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. p. 63. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4.
IsmailofGhazni (Persian: اسماعیل غزنوی) was the emir of Ghazna, reigning for 7 months, from 5 August 997 until 998. He succeeded his father emir Sabuktigin...
other brother, Abu'l-Muzaffar, the governor of Bust, he defeated Ismail the following year at the battle ofGhazni and gained control over the Ghaznavid kingdom...
of Ghazni Province. The name Ghazni drives from the Persian word "ganj", meaning ‘treasure’. Ghazni Citadel, the Minarets ofGhazni, the Palace of Sultan...
114-115. Bosworth 1977, p. 126. Bosworth 2012. Ali, Adam (2011). "Mahmud ofGhazni". In Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed.). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic...
district, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan on the Kabul-Kandahar highway. More than 50 other people injured in the accident were taken to hospital in Ghazni Province...
division of power, to which Ismail refused. Mahmud marched on Ghazna and subsequently Ismail was defeated and captured in 998 at the Battle ofGhazni. In 998...
legendary Khyber Pass and the Bolan Pass. It connects Ghazni in Afghanistan with Tank and Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan. Gomal Pass, for a long time, has...
Pakistan. The population is 23,965 according to the 2017 census. List of tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa "district and Tehsil level population summary with...
continues with the account of his burial in Ghazni. The Bettani are also known to have lived in the Logar, Zurmat and Ghazni areas of Afghanistan until the...
or Ghilzai and Ghilzay (غلزی), are one of the largest Pashtun tribes. Their traditional homeland is Ghazni and Qalati Ghilji in Afghanistan but they...
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Kharoti populations in the Paktika districts of Urgun, Barmal, Sar Hawza, Zarghun Shahr, Omna, Surobi, and in Ghazni, Zabul, Paktia, Khost, Logar, Wardak, Kabul...
seventh of the Samanid line—at the time of Sebük Tigin and his older son, Mahmud ofGhazni. The governor of Herāt was a noble by the name of Faik, who...
militiamen under the command ofIsmail Khan, a commander in the previous Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and former governor of Herat before the Taliban came...
in 865. Meanwhile, the Hindu Shahi of Kabul were defeated under Mahmud ofGhazni. Indian soldiers were a part of the Ghaznavid army and the 14th-century...
to Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty. Martha's mother Theodora—better known as Despina Khatun—was a Pontic Greek princess, the daughter of the...
dynasty of Multan who ruled the Emirate of Multan. He was deposed by Mahmud ofGhazni, who also massacred the Ismailis in the course of his conquest of Multan...
assassinated by his guards at the instigation of the Ghaznavid sultan Mas'ud I ofGhazni. Isma'il took control of Khwarazm, and like his brother defied Mas'ud...
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