Like the other dynasties that rose out of the remains of the Abbasid Caliphate, the Ghaznavid administrative traditions and military practice came from the Abbasids.

As evidence, he points to the presence of Indic words specifically of military origin and to a Banjara oral legend telling of Rajputs who left India through the Himalayas during the Ghaznavid invasions and never returned.

The battle ended with a Seljuq victory and brought down the Ghaznavid domination in the Khorasan.

In the 11th century, Islam was established in Bamyan, Ghor and other parts of Hazarajat, during the rule of Ghaznavid dynasty, though Buddhism, Hinduism and other polythestic customs being strong.

The Ghaznavid rulers are generally credited with spreading Islam into the Indian subcontinent.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

The Ghaznavid army was made up of Turks, as well as thousands of native Afghans who were trained and assembled from the area south of the Hindu Kush in what is now Afghanistan.

Abu Mansur Sabuktigin () ( ca 942 – August 997 ), also spelled as Sabuktagin, Sabuktakin, Sebüktegin and Sebük Tigin, is regarded as the founder of the Ghaznavid Empire in what is now Afghanistan during the late 10th century.

The Ghor region laid on the western boundary of the Ghaznavid Empire, which, in the early 12th century, covered an area stretching from what is now central Afghanistan to the Punjab in what is now Pakistan, with summer capital at Ghazni and winter capital at Lahore.

The Qadariyah have been censured by many rulers throughout Islamic history including the Ghaznavid ruler, Sebük Tigin for what is seen as their bidah ( a newly invented practice in the Islamic creed ).

* The Ghaznavid army invades Kashmir, but is defeated.

# Othman Mokhtari, another poet at the Ghaznavid court of India, remarked, " Alive is Rustam through the epic of Ferdowsi, else there would not be a trace of him in this World ".

The city is currently being rebuilt by the Government of Afghanistan in order to revive the Ghaznavid and Timurid era when it served as the center of Islamic civilisation.

His book is one of the most creditable sources about the Ghaznavid Empire, and his fluent prose style has made the book considerable in Persian literature too.

Sebuktegin is generally regarded as the architect of the Ghaznavid Empire.

* 1041: The Ghaznavid Sultan Mohammad Ghaznavi is overthrown by Maw ' dud Ghaznavi.

Not counting the caliph's new home region of Syria, nor Egypt ( including eastern Libya ; both only recently lost by Byzantium to the Sassanids ), these were Iraq and Mesopotamia ( both Arabized, around ancient Ctesiphon and modern Baghdad respectively around ancient Nineveh and modern Mosul ), Khuzestan around ancient Susa, still partly Arabic ), Armenia, Iberia ( i. e. Trans-Caucasian Georgia ), Arran-Schirwan ( east of it ) all three of the northern front, Azerbaijan ( a Turkic people ) and the ethnic heart of Iran ( Fars which is the eponymous home province, Djibal-the ancient Media -, Gilan, Tabaristan and Djurdjan ( all three on the Caspian Sea coast ), Kerman, Sistan and Khorasan ( including Herat in present Afghanistan ); under the Omayyad dynasty ( 661-750 ) the caliphate expanded further east, adding Sindh ( now southern Pakistan ), Zabulistan ( including Kabul and Ghazna, later the eponymous seat of a mighty break-away Ghaznavid dynasty ) and in Central Asia Tocharistan ( around Balkh ) and Transoxania ( Sogdia, Fergana and Mawara An-Nahr, with Samarkand ).

What is known with certainty is that it was considerably different from the Persian used as literary language at the Ghaznavid court.

The Shahis continued to rule eastern Afghanistan until the late 9th century until the Ghaznavid invasions.

The Ghaznavid Empire was then taken over by the Ghorids from today's Ghor, Afghanistan.

Soon the name became known in Muslim Central Asia as well: when in 1026, the Ghaznavid court ( in Ghazna, in today's Afghanistan ) was visited by envoys from the Liao ruler, he was described as a " Qatā Khan ", i. e. the ruler of Qatā ; Qatā or Qitā appears in writings of al-Biruni and Abu Said Gardezi in the following decades.

Ghazni, Ghaznavid Empire ( modern-day Afghanistan )

He died in the Ghaznavid Empire ( modern-day Afghanistan ) near the city of Ghazna.

Under the reign of Mas ' ud I, the Ghaznavid dynasty began losing control over its western territories to the Seljuqs after the Battle of Dandanaqan, resulting in a restriction of its holdings to modern-day Afghanistan, Western Punjab and the Balochistan region.

The Ghaznavid empire grew to cover much of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwest India.

The only exception to this was the Ghaznavid dynasty of Afghanistan, which originated amongst the ghilman of the Samanid dynasty.

He was born around 990 CE near Ghazni, Afghanistan during the Ghaznavid Empire and died in Lahore ( in present day Punjab, Pakistan ) in 1077 CE.

Ghaznavid power in north western India continued until the conquest of Lahore from Khusrau Malik in 1186.

In 2006, the Afghan Minister of Information and Culture criticized Pakistan for naming its lethal ballistic missiles and other weaponry after Afghan kings and rulers ( i. e. Abdali, Ghaznavid, Ghorid and Mughal rulers ) arguing that their names should be bracketed with academic, cultural and peace-promoting institutions, not with tools of destruction and killing.

In February 2006, Karzai regime delivered a complaint to Pakistan for naming its lethal ballistic missiles after Afghan kings and rulers ( i. e. Abdali, Ghaznavid and Ghauri ), arguing that their names should be bracketed with academic, cultural and peace-promoting institutions, not with tools of destruction and killing.

The Ghaznavids | Ghaznavid Empire.

The Ghaznavid dynasty was defeated in 1148 by the Ghurids from Ghor, but the Ghaznavid Sultans continued to live in Ghazni as the ' Nasher ' until the early 20th century.

The region became part of the Afghan Ghaznavid Empire in the 10th century, during the Indian invasions by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.

The areas which form the two countries were once connected, especially during the Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Timurid periods.

* Jayapala suffers defeat from Ghaznavid Empire near Peshawar.

* Battle of Peshawar: The Turkic Ghaznavid armies defeat a Hindu confederacy.

* Aladdin of Ghur sacks Ghazni and destroys the Ghaznavid Empire.

* Mahmud founds the Great Mosque at Ghazni, capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.

* Bahram Shah becomes Ghaznavid Emperor.

* Masud seizes the throne of the Ghaznavid Empire after the death of his father Mahmud.

* The Ghaznavid Empire occupies Transoxiana.

* Mahmud appoints Ayaz to the throne, making Lahore the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.

# Masud Sa ' ad Salman showed the influence of the Shahnameh only 80 years after its composition by reciting its poems in the Ghaznavid court of India.

In 975, the Ghaznavids took over the city, while the converted Aflahids entered the Ghaznavid nobility.

The Pashtun area ( known today as the " Pashtunistan " region ) fell within the Ghaznavid Empire in the 10th century followed by the Ghurids, Timurids, Mughals, Hotakis, and finally by the Durranis.

Ghaznavid attempts to stop Seljuqs raiding the local Muslim populace led to the Battle of Dandanaqan on 23 May 1040.