First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936Archived 2013-08-29 at the वेबैक मशीन, Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, pp. 162, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-09796-4, ... About 350 (961) a Turkish slave named Alp-tegin who had been Hadjib or Chamberlain under the Samanide king 'Abd al-Malik rebelled against his successor Mansur, and took possession of the town of Ghaznin ...
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central AsiaArchived 2011-11-07 at the वेबैक मशीन, René Grousset, pp. 147, Rutgers University Press, 1970, ISBN 978-0-8135-1304-1, ... On May 22, 1040, the Ghaznavids had been beaten at the battle of Dandanaqan, near Merv, by another Turkic band, the Seljuks, who had captured Khurasan from them and driven them back into Afghanistan and India ...
"Persian Prose Literature." World Eras. 2002. HighBeam Research. (September 3, 2012);"Princes, although they were often tutored in Arabic and religious subjects, frequently did not feel as comfortable with the Arabic language and preferred literature in Persian, which was either their mother tongue—as in the case of dynasties such as the Saffarids (861–1003), Samanids (873–1005), and Buyids (945–1055)— or was a preferred lingua franca for them—as with the later Turkish dynasties such as the Ghaznawids (977–1187) and Saljuks (1037–1194)". [1]
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First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936Archived 2013-08-29 at the वेबैक मशीन, Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, pp. 162, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-09796-4, ... About 350 (961) a Turkish slave named Alp-tegin who had been Hadjib or Chamberlain under the Samanide king 'Abd al-Malik rebelled against his successor Mansur, and took possession of the town of Ghaznin ...
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central AsiaArchived 2011-11-07 at the वेबैक मशीन, René Grousset, pp. 147, Rutgers University Press, 1970, ISBN 978-0-8135-1304-1, ... On May 22, 1040, the Ghaznavids had been beaten at the battle of Dandanaqan, near Merv, by another Turkic band, the Seljuks, who had captured Khurasan from them and driven them back into Afghanistan and India ...
