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Amu Darya
Andkhud
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Balkh
Bamiyan
Bhimadeva II
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Chahuans
Chaulukyas
Delhi
eastern Iran
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Firuzkuh
Ghazna
Ghaznavids
Ghiyath al-Din
Ghiyath al-Din Iwad
Ghulams
Ghur
Ghurids
Herat
Khalaj
Khurasan
Khwarazmshahs
Kokhars
Lahore
Mamluks
Merv
minaret of Jam
Mongols
Mu'izz al-Din
Muhammad b. Bakhtiar
Mu’izz al-Din
Nasir al-Din Qubacha
Nishapur
northern India
Pritviraja III
Qara-Khitai
Qarakhanids
Qutb al-Din Aybak
Radiyya
Seljuks
Shams al-Din Iltutmish
Solankis
Syr Darya
Tara'in
Tara’in
Product details
- ISBN 9781916846760
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Ghurids have their origins in the mountainous region of modern central Afghanistan, from where they established the first Islamic state in India. Some of their ghulams, primarily nomadic Turks from Central Asia, were to become independent rulers, leading to the foundation of the Delhi Sultanate. At its height, in the late-twelfth and early-thirteenth centuries, their domain extended from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the Bay of Bengal and from the Straits of Hormuz to the River Oxus.
Mamluks, Conquest and Culture covers both the military and political history of the dynasty and the Persianate cultural world they inhabited and propagated on the subcontinent. The collapse of the Great Seljuk Empire allowed them to expand westwards into Iran. Extensive use of ghulams played a crucial role in their success, and this cavalry was to prove decisive in the campaigns against the Indian dynasties. Their conquests reunited territories to create a transregional empire for the first time in a millennium.
Mark Kerr-Smiley read History at University College London and has taught and lectured there. His particular interests have always been linked to the wider medieval world. He worked for over thirty years in the City of London. Mamluks, Conquest and Culture is his first book. He lives in London.
