| Toghrul | |||||
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| Ruler of The State | |||||
| Reign | 1052 – 1053 | ||||
| Predecessor | Abd al-Rashid | ||||
| Successor | Farrukh-Zad | ||||
| Born | ? | ||||
| Died | c. 1053 | ||||
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| Father | ? | ||||
| Mother | ? | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
Toghrul of Ghazna (full name: Qiwam ad-Dawlah Abu Said Toghrul), was a Turkic slave general and usurper of the Ghaznavid throne. He was originally a ghulam in the service of the Ghaznavid Empire. Following his usurpation of the Ghaznavid throne from Abd al-Rashid and massacre of eleven Ghaznavid royal princes, he was known as the accursed, the inauspicious, the arrogant and the contemptible.[1]