List of battles involving the Ghaznavid Empire
This is an incomplete list of battles fought by the Ghaznavids.
India/Pakistan | Turkmenistan | Afghanistan | Iran | Uzbekistan |
( Color legend for the location of the battle )
Year | Name | Location | Ghaznavid commander | Opponent | Victor |
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988 | 1st Battle of Laghman | near Laghman | Sabuktigin | Jayapala(Kabul Shahi) | Ghaznavids[1] |
991 | 2nd Battle of Laghman | near Laghman | Sabuktigin | Jayapala(Kabul Shahi) | Ghaznavids[2] |
994 | Battle of Herat | near Herat | Sabuktigin | Abu Ali Simjuri(Simjurids) | Ghaznavids(Sabuktigin is appointed Amir of Khurasan, Balkh and Herat)[3] |
998 | 1st Battle of Ghazni | Ghazni | Ismail of Ghazni (Amir of Ghazna) | Mahmud | Mahmud of Ghazna is made Amir of Ghazna.[4] |
May 999 | Battle of Merv | Merv | Mahmud of Ghazni(Samanid forces for Mansur II) | Samanid forces of Abd al-Malik II | Mahmud of Ghazni[5] |
1001 | Battle of Peshawar | Peshawar | Mahmud of Ghazni | Jayapala(Kabul Shahi) | Ghaznavids[6] |
1005-6 | Siege of Multan | Multan | Mahmud of Ghazni | Fateh Daud | Ghaznavids[7] |
1008 | Battle of Balkh | Balkh | Mahmud of Ghazni | Ahmad Arslan Qara Khan(Kara-Khanids) | Ghaznavids[8][9] |
1009 | Battle of Ohind | Ohind | Mahmud of Ghazni | Anandapala(Kabul Shahi) | Ghaznavids[10] |
1027 | Battle of the Indus River | Mahmud of Ghazni | Jats | Ghaznavids[11] | |
1032 | Battle of Dabusiyya | Altun Tash(Ghaznavid general) | Kara-Khanids & Seljuq allies | Indecisive[12] | |
1033 | Siege of Sarsawa | near Saharanpur | Mas'ud I of Ghazni | Mas'ud I[13] | |
1035 | Battle of Nasa Plains | Tabaristan | Begtoghdi(Ghaznavid chamberlain) | Chaghri Beg(Seljuq Turks) | Seljuq Turks[14] |
1037 | Siege of Hansi | near Delhi[15] | Mas'ud I of Ghazni | Mas'ud I[16] | |
1038 | Battle of Sarakhs | Sarakhs | Abu'l-Fadl Suri(Ghaznavid governor of Khurasan) | Tughril(Seljuq Turks) | Seljuq Turks[17] |
1038 | Battle of Rey | Rey | Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar(Kakuyids) | Kakuyid dynasty[18] | |
1040 | Battle of Dandanaqan | near Merv | Mas'ud I of Ghazni | Chaghri Beg, Tughril(Seljuq Turks) | Seljuq Turks[19] |
November 1040 | Siege of Zaranj | Zaranj | Abu l-Fadl(Ghaznavid commander) | Ertash(Seljuq Turks) | Abu l-Fadl joined Seljuq Turks and Zaranj was occupied.[20] |
19 March 1041 | Battle of Nangrahar | near Jalalabad | Muhammad(second son of Mahmud) | Maw'dud(eldest son of Masud) | Maw'dud defeats Muhammad and gains Ghaznavid throne.[21] |
1043-44 | Tokharistan | Maw'dud | Alp Arslan(Seljuq Turks) | Seljuq Turks[22] | |
1045-6 | near Zaranj | Ertash(Seljuq Turks) | Ghaznavids[23] | ||
1051 | Battle of Hupyan | Hupyan | Toghrul of Ghazna | Alp Arslan | Ghaznavids[24] |
1051 | Siege of Taq | Sistan | Toghrul of Ghazna(slave general) | Kotwal Hilal Daraqi(Saffarids) | Saffarids retain Taq[25] |
1116 | Battle of Tiginabad | Tiginabad(near Kandahar)[26] | Arslan Shah (Sultan of Ghaznavid Empire) | Bahram-Shah | Arslan Shah[27] |
1117 | 2nd Battle of Ghazni | plain of Shahrabad, near Ghazni[28] | Arslan Shah (Sultan of Ghaznavid Empire) | Ahmad Sanjar Bahram-Shah |
Ahmad Sanjar(Sultan of the Great Seljuq Empire)[29] |
12 May 1149 | Battle of Sang-i Surakh | Near upper part of the Helmand River | Bahram-Shah | Sayf al-Din Suri (Ghurids) | Bahram Shah[30] |
June 1170 | (near Kannauj) | Jayachandra(Gahadvala dynasty) | Gahadvala dynasty[31] | ||
1186 | Siege of Lahore | Lahore | Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad(Ghurid dynasty) | Ghurid Dynasty[32] |
References
- ↑ Christian Mabel (Duff) Rickmers, The Chronology of India, from the earliest times to the beginning of the sixteenth century, (Archibald Constable & Co., 1899), 101.
- ↑ S. N. Sen, Ancient Indian History And Civilization, (New Age International, 1988), 342.
- ↑ The Ghaznavids, C.E. Bosworth, Age of Achievement: A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century, Vol. 4, ed. M. S. Asimov, C. E. Bosworth, (UNESCO, 1998), 98.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Ghaznavids:994-1040, (Edinburgh University Press, 1963), 45.
- ↑ Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna, (Greenwood Publishing, 2000), 48.
- ↑ Satish Chandra, Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526), (Har-Anand Publications, 2006), 18.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, (Columbia University Press, 1977), 31.
- ↑ Carl Brockelmann, Moshe Perlmann and Joel Carmichael, History of the Islamic Peoples: With a Review of Events, 1939-1947, (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1947), 169. – via Questia (subscription required)
- ↑ Rene Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes, transl. Naomi Walford, (Rutgers University Press, 2002), 146.
- ↑ Satish Chandra, Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526), 18.
- ↑ Mahmud of Ghazni, Adam Ali, Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol.1, ed. Alexander Mikaberidze, (ABC-CLIO, 2011), 543.
- ↑ The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000-1217), C.E. Bosworth, The Cambridge History of Iran: The Saljuq and Mongol Period, Vol. 5, ed. J.A. Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 19.
- ↑ The Early Ghaznavids, C.E. Bosworth, The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 4, ed. R.N. Frye, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 188.
- ↑ 'Izz al-D in Ibn al-Althir, The Annals of the Saljuq Turks, transl. D.S. Richards, ed.Carole Hillenbrand, (Routledge, 2002), 35.
- ↑ The Early Ghaznavids, C.E. Bosworth, The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 4, ed. R.N. Frye, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 188.
- ↑ S. N. Sen, Ancient Indian History And Civilization, (New Age International, 1999), 357.
- ↑ Omid Safi, The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry, (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), 24.
- ↑ Sheila Blair, The Monumental inscriptions from early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana, (Brill, 1992), 112.
- ↑ Rene Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes: a History of Central Asia, transl. Naomi Walford, (Rutgers University Press, 1991), 147
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 28.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 22-24.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 26.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 29.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 43.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 44.
- ↑ Kandahar of the Arab Conquest, S. W. Helms, World Archaeology, Vol. 14, No.3, Islamic Archaeology (Feb., 1983), 342-354.
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- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 96.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 96.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 114-115.
- ↑ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, 126.
- ↑ Ghaznavids, C.E. Bosworth, Encyclopedia Iranica
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