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Muhammad of Ghor was born in the Ghur region of present-day west-central Afghanistan to the Ghurid ruler Baha al-Din Sam I who ruled his ancestral realm briefly before he died in 1149, when Muhammad of Ghor was a child. [1] His name is variously transliterated as Muizuddin Sam, Shihabuddin Ghuri, Muhammad Ghori and Muhammad of Ghor. [2]
Gold Dinar of Muhammad of Ghor, dated AH 601 (1204/5 CE), struck in Ghazni.. In the 19th century some European scholars, such as Mountstuart Elphinstone, favoured the idea that the Ghurid dynasty was related to today's Pashtun people [13] [14] [15] but this is generally rejected by modern scholarship. [16]
The murder of Muhammad Ghori by the Khokhars. The word "Khokhar" itself is of Persian origin and means "bloodthirsty". In 1204–1205, the Khokhars revolted under their leader and conquered and plundered Multan, Lahore and blocked the strategic roads between Punjab and Ghazni.
Ghori, (also Ghouri, Ghauri) are subtribe of the larger Ghauriyakhel Pashtoon tribe. The tribe later engulfed the pashtoons, converts Muslims and converts Christians from Buddhist of Ghor Afghanistan named Ghuraid after the battles conquered by Muhammad of Ghor's courtier referred to him as the "Sultan-i-Ghazi" (sultan of the holy warriors) and portrayed his Indian expeditions as a battle ...
Qutb ud-Din Aibak (Persian: قطبالدین ایبک; 1150 – 14 November 1210) was a Turkic general of the Ghurid emperor Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori.He was in charge of the Ghurid territories in northern India, and after Muhammad Ghori's assassination in 1206, he established his own independent rule in Lahore, and laid the foundations for the Sultanate of Delhi.
Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (Persian: غیاث الدین محمد بن سام), also known as Ghiyath al-Din Ghori or Ghiyassuddin Ghori born, Muhammad (c. 1140–1203, r. 1163–1203 ), was the Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty .
The Afghan historians proceed to relate that the Jewish tribe, both in Ghor and in Arabia, preserved their knowledge of the unity of God and the purity of their religious belief, and that on the appearance of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, the Afghans of Ghor listened to the invitation of their Arabian brethren, the chief of whom was Khalid ibn ...
The Ghaznavids retook Ghazni, but lost the city to the Ghuzz Turks who in turn lost it to Muhammad of Ghor. In response, the Ghaznavids fled to Lahore, their regional capital. In 1186, Lahore was conquered by the Ghurid sultan, Muhammad of Ghor, with its Ghaznavid ruler, Khusrau Malik, imprisoned and later executed.