Sabuktigin

Abu Mansur Nasir al-Din Sabuktigin (Persian: ابو منصور سبکتگین‎) (ca 942 – August 997), also spelled as Sabuktagin, Sabuktakin, Sebüktegin and Sebük Tigin, was the founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from 367 A.H/977 A.D to 387 A.H/997 A.D. In Turkic the name means beloved prince. When his father-in-law Alptigin died, Sabuktigin became the new ruler and expanded the kingdom after defeating Jayapala of Kabul to cover the territory as far as the Neelum River in Kashmir and the Indus River in what is now Pakistan.

Sabuktigin

Abu Mansur Nasir al-Din Sabuktigin (Persian: ابو منصور سبکتگین‎) (ca 942 – August 997), also spelled as Sabuktagin, Sabuktakin, Sebüktegin and Sebük Tigin, was the founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from 367 A.H/977 A.D to 387 A.H/997 A.D. In Turkic the name means beloved prince. When his father-in-law Alptigin died, Sabuktigin became the new ruler and expanded the kingdom after defeating Jayapala of Kabul to cover the territory as far as the Neelum River in Kashmir and the Indus River in what is now Pakistan.