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Saffarid conquest [1] 880-900 Muslim Sijistan: Amr ibn Layth, Kamaluka Shahi Frequent raids by Muslims. [1] 903-905 Hindu Kabul region Shahi dynasty Disintegration of Saffarids allows major Hindu military achievements. [1] 905-915 Hindu Multan region Mahipala Pratihara: Series of major but unsuccessful Hindu sieges of Multan. [1] 940-950 Hindu ...
While there is a tendency to view the Muslim conquests and Muslim empires as a prolonged period of violence against Hindu culture, [note 2] in between the periods of wars and conquests, there were harmonious Hindu-Muslim relations in most Indian communities, [177] and the Indian population grew during the medieval Muslim times. No populations ...
While Mahmud's conquests were driven by a desire for wealth and power, they also led to the spread of Persian culture and the introduction of Islam in the region. His expeditions marked the beginning of a series of foreign invasions into India, ultimately shaping the course of its history for centuries to come.
The conquest is often thought to have started circa 535 BCE, during the time of Cyrus the Great (600-530 BCE). [9] [10] [1] Cyrus probably went as far as the banks of the Indus river and organized the conquered territories under the Satrapy of Gandara (Old Persian cuneiform: 𐎥𐎭𐎠𐎼, Gadāra, also transliterated as Ga n dāra since the nasal "n" before consonants was omitted in the ...
The Ghurid campaigns in India were a series of invasions for 31 years (1175–1206) by the Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor (r. 1173–1206) in the last quarter of the twelfth and early decade of the thirteenth century which lead to the widespread expansion of the Ghurid empire in the Indian subcontinent.
The Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent or Indo-Muslim period [1] is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military command of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. [2] It began in the Indian subcontinent in the course of a gradual conquest.
The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. The Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor laid the foundation of Muslim rule in India in 1192, [221] expanding up to Bengal by 1202. The Ghurid Empire soon evolved into the Delhi Sultanate in 1206, transitioning to the Mamluk dynasty.
Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent began in the early 8th century CE with a Muhammad ibn Qasim-led army. This campaign is narrated in the Chach Nama by Bakr Kūfī, a 13th-century manuscript which claimed to be based on an earlier Arabic record. [14]