Mahmud Shahi (Persian: محمودشاهي, also Romanized as Maḩmūd Shāhī; also known as Maḩmūd Shādī) is a village in Tiab Rural District, in the Central District...

1001 Mahmud of Ghazni first invaded modern day Pakistan and then parts of India. Mahmud defeated, captured, and later released the Hindu Shahi ruler...

The Hindu Shahis, also referred to as the Uḍi Śāhis, were a dynasty established between 843 CE and 1026 CE. They endured multiple waves of conquests for...

Tarikh-i-Muzaffar Shahi about reign of Muzaffar Shah I, Tarik-i-Ahmad Shah in verse by Hulvi Shirazi, Tarikh-i-Mahmud Shahi, Tabaqat-i-Mahmud Shahi, Maathi-i-Mahmud Shahi...

development. Mahmud was born in the 14th-century into an aristocratic Bengali Muslim Sunni family in the Bengal Sultanate. His forefathers – the Ilyas Shahis – were...

Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name محمود (Maḥmūd), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal...

for days before the tide turned against the Shahis: Jayapala was forced to propose a peace treaty. Mahmud, son of Sabuktigin and a battle commander, wished...

The Hussain Shahi dynasty was a family which ruled the late medieval Sunni Muslim Sultanate of Bengal from 1494 to 1538. The dynasty's founder, Alauddin...

Chaach was fought in 1007 AD between the Ghaznavid army of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Hindu Shahi army of Anandapala, near Hazro, resulting in the latter's...

fought on 27 November 1001 between the Ghaznavid army of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Hindu Shahi army of Jayapala, near Peshawar. Jayapala was defeated and...

forces, led by Mahmud of Ghazni, achieved victory over the Hindu Shahi forces, commanded by Jayapala, near Peshawar. Consequently, Mahmud incorporated Peshawar...

restore the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. After the death of Shams ad-Din Ahmad, the rule of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty was restored by Mahmud Shah, a descendant...

Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah (Bengali: গিয়াসউদ্দীন মাহমুদ শাহ, Persian: غیاث الدین محمود شاه) was the last Sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of the Bengal...

The Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi (lit. 'History of Sher Shah') is a historical work dated 1580 CE which was compiled by Abbas Khan Sarwani, a waqia-navis under...

rule and when Mahmud of Ghazni attempted to invade Kashmir. In 1014, Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the Kabul Shahi kingdom. The Kabul Shahi ruler Trilochanapala...

Bahmani Sultanate were against the Adil Shahi kingdom of Bijapur, so they have also been named the Adil Shahi Wars. Mahmud Shah assembled his forces, declared...

histories produced in China. The 15th-century Indo-Persian Ma'athir-i-Mahmud Shahi, written by 'Abd al-Husayn Tuni (died 1489), is sometimes considered...

The Tarikh-i Ahmad Shahi is a chronicle, written in Persian, by Mahmud al-Husayni. He had been hired by Ahmad Shah Durrani to mark the achievements of...

orchestrated by Mahmud of Ghazni, a ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, directed against the Chaulukya dynasty of Gujarat. This is considered Mahmud's fifteenth...

Bidar Fort (inside view garden) Tombs of Bidar Shahi kings at Barid Shahi Park in Bidar Tombs at Barid Shahi Park in Bidar List of Shi'a Muslims dynasties...

Anandapala in A.D. 1012, Mahmud of the Ghaznavid Empire launched a renewed campaign against the Shahis. In A.D. 1013, Mahmud marched towards Nandana in...

Mughal Empire is born (dies 1582) 23 November Mahmud Begada dies Yusuf Adil Shah founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty (although he may have died at the end...

The Sultanate of Ahmednagar or the Nizam Shahi Sultanate was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates...

modern kingdom in the western Deccan and South India, ruled by the Adil Shahi or Adilshahi dynasty. Bijapur had been a taraf (province) of the Bahmani...

Madrassa Shahi (alternatively known as Jamia Qasmia) is an Islamic seminary in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1879 by the poor Muslims...

Samanid and Shahi territories, including the Ismaili Kingdom of Multan, Sindh, as well as some Buwayhid territory. By all accounts, the rule of Mahmud was the...

and assassination of Jalaluddin Fateh Shah of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. Before the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, it was customary for Muslim rulers to purchase...

the Malwa Sultanate in the fifteenth century. The son of his predecessor Mahmud Shah I, he reigned from 1469 to 1500. A military leader before his accession...

the Hindu Shahis under Jayapala in 988 CE. The Ghaznavids defeated the Hindu Shahis and Jayapala signed a treaty in which the Hindu Shahis paid tribute...

history, most recently by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1670. He built the Shahi Eidgah mosque there, which still stands. In the 20th century, the new temple...