Muhammad bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi (Arabic: محمد بن قاسم) (c. 31 December 695–18 July 715) was a Umayyad general who, at the age of 17, began the conquest of the Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus River (now a part of Pakistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate. He was born & raised in the city of [...]
Mahmud of Ghazni (Persian: محمود غزنوی Maḥmūd-e Ghaznawī)(Mahmood / Mehmood) (November 2, 971 – April 30, 1030), also known as Yāmīn al-Dawlah Maḥmūd (in full: Yāmīn al-Dawlah Abd al-Qāṣim Maḥmūd Ibn Sebük Tegīn) was the Turkic founder of the Ghaznavid Empire, which he ruled from 997 until his death. Mahmud turned the former provincial city [...]
