him to Khwarazm, besieging Gurganj, his capital. Muhammad desperately requested aid from the Kara-Khitan Khanate, who sent an army to aid Muhammad. Mu'izz...

/kwəˈræzmiən/), or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin. Khwarazmians ruled large parts of present-day Central...

Khwarazm (/xwəˈræzəm/; Old Persian: Hwârazmiya; Persian: خوارزم, Xwârazm or Xârazm) or Chorasmia (/kəˈræzmiə/) is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya...

Muhammad II's conflict with the Ghurids in Khorasan continued for several years. In 1204, Muhammad of Ghor attacked Khwarazm directly. Muhammad II hurried...

1097 to 1127. He was the son of Anushtegin Gharchai. In around 1097, Qutb al-Din Muhammad was appointed governor of Khwarazm by the Seljuk sultan Berkyaruk's...

used regularly by the rulers of the Central Asian region of Khwarazm starting from the Late Antiquity until the advent of the Mongols in the early 13th-century...

skirmish, an inconclusive engagement fought against the army of Muhammad II of Khwarazm. The Secret History records two conversations between Jochi and...

principal consort of Sultanate of Rum being favorite wife of sultan Kaykhusraw II, whom she married after the death of Muhammad II of Khwarazm in 1237. After...

slave of the Seljuq sultans, who was appointed as governor of Khwarazm. His son, Qutb ad-Din Muhammad I, became the first hereditary Shah of Khwarazm. Anush...

Shah Muhammad formed a council composed of his army commanders. Imam Shahab al-Din Khiyoqi, one of the famous jurists and teachers of Khwarazm, proposed...

is part of the "Fifty fortresses oasis" in modern-day Uzbekistan. It was last occupied by Muhammad II of Khwarazm (1169, 1200-20), ruler of the Khwarazmian...

mother was Khan-Sultan (or Sultan Khatun), the captured daughter of Muhammad II of Khwarazm. The marriage between Jochi and Khan-Sultan took place in 1220...

which had been founded by Yelü Dashi in the 1130s. Khwarazm and the Qarakhanids were nominally vassals of the Qara-Khitai, but in practice, due to their large...

region of Khwarazm from 1511 to 1920, except for a period of Afsharid occupation by Nader Shah between 1740 and 1746. Centred in the irrigated plains of the...

the Khwarazmian Empire, causing its disintegration. Its ruler, Muhammad II of Khwarazm, succumbed to disease on an island in the Caspian Sea, leaving...

lasting legacy of Mongol rule in Iran. When Muhammad II of Khwarazm ordered a contingent of merchants, dispatched by the Mongols, to be killed, Genghis...

al-Din Muhammad (علاء الدين محمد ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muhammad) may refer to: Muhammad II of Khwarazm, ruler of the Khwarezmian Empire from 1200 to 1220 Muhammad III...

Khwarazmians. Muhammad II of Khwarazm's 1217 invasion of the Abbasids failed, and his realm was soon invaded by the armies of Genghis Khan, first ruler of the Mongol...

al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam (Persian: معز الدین محمد بن سام, romanized: Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sām; c. 1144 – 15 March 1206), also known as Muhammad of Ghor...

who as a vassal of the Qara Khitai khanate led an army to assist Muhammad II of Khwarazm against the Ghurids. The Qara Khitai were weakened by events on...

detained or captured by Muhammad of Khwarezm in 1210, and were given important posts. He was initially in the service of Khwarazm prince Ghiyas-ad-Din Purshah...

Mirror) of Amir Khusrow, completed in 1299/1300 during the reign of Muhammad II of Khwarazm. The Kherad-nâme (Book of Alexandrian Intelligence) of Jâmi composed...

camel loads of gold in 800 chests"—although this claim may be unreliable. In 1215, Firozkoh was attacked and defeated by Muhammad II of Khwarazm. However...

with nomads. They are joined by bey Jalal al-Din, son of the powerful ruler Muhammad II of Khwarazm, lost while hunting goitered gazelles. The group shares...

Iranian dynasty who ruled over the ancient kingdom of Khwarazm. Over time, they were under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Empire, the Hephthalite Empire, the...

al-Din Muhammad ibn Ildeniz (Persian: نصرت الدین محمد بن ایل دنیز), better known as Muhammad Jahan-Pahlavan (محمد جهان پهلوان, "Muhammad, the champion of the...

come from this region. Of Persian stock, his name means 'from Khwarazm', a region that was part of Greater Iran, and is now part of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan...

of Jochi. Ozar was killed, and Kuchlug advanced on the city, which requested aid from Genghis Khan. In 1218, after requesting Muhammad II of Khwarazm...

Granada Muhammad XII of Granada, former Sultan of Granada Muhammad I of Khwarazm, former Shah of Khwarazm Muhammad II of Khwarezm, former Shah of Khwarazm Muhammad...

'Ali, and sent him to Khwarazm. The Khwarazm Shah, who held southern Khwarazm as a Samanid vassal, imprisoned Abu 'Ali. Both of them were captured when...