Arslan-Shah of Ghazna

Arslan-Shah
Sultan ad-Dawlah
Sultan of the Ghaznavid Sultanate
ReignFebruary 1116 – 25 February 1117
PredecessorShir-Zad
SuccessorBahram Shah
Bornc. 1092
Ghaznavid Empire
Diedc. 1119 (aged 27)
Ghaznavid Empire
Names
Laqab: Sultan ad-Dawlah
Kunya: Abul-Moluk[1]
Given name: Arslan-Shah
Full name: Sultan ad-Dawlah Abul-Moluk Arslan-Shah ibn Mas'ud
DynastyGhaznavid
FatherMas'ud III of Ghazni
MotherGawhar Khatun[2]
ReligionSunni Islam

Arslan-Shah of Ghazna (full name: Sultan ad-Dawlah Abul-Moluk Arslan-Shah ibn Mas'ud) (c. 1092 – 1119[3][4]) was the Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire from 1116 to 1117 C.E.

  1. ^ "ARSLĀNŠĀH" Encyclopædia Iranica
  2. ^ C.E. Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids, (Columbia University Press, 1977), 90.
  3. ^ al-Athīr, I.D.I.; Richards, D.S. (2006). The Chronicle of Ibn Al-Athīr for the Crusading Period from Al-Kāmil Fīʼl-taʼrīkh. Crusade texts in translation. Ashgate. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-7546-4077-6.
  4. ^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids: Splendour and Decay, The Dynasty in Afghanistan and Northern India 1040–1186, (Columbia University Press, 1977), 95-98. ISBN 0-231-04428-3