Mas'ud I of Ghazni

Mas'ud I of Ghazni (* 998, † January 17, 1041 ), actually Shihab al-Dawla Abu Said Massoud (Persian شهاب الدولة أبو سعيد مسعود, DMG Šihāb Abū Sa ʿ ad-Daula īd Mas ʿ ūd ), was from 1030 to 1040 Sultan Ghaznavid dynasty.

Rise

During his lifetime his famous father Mahmud himself Masud had repeatedly proved an able commander and had been appointed governor of Herat in 1020. As a new Rayy years later was conquered by the Buyids, Masud also received this governorship entrusted and subjugated from here Isfahan and Hamadan. The news of the death of his father ( 1030) preserving, Masud immediately returned from Jibal back, snatched with the support of the army his twin brother Muhammad, the eigentlichem heir to the throne, dominion, and ordered that this was blinded and imprisoned. Only after Muhammad Masud death came briefly to power.

Regency

Masud was addicted to drink and he lacked the diplomatic capacities Mahmud. Still, he led the campaigns of his father in India and urged the Persian Buyids back on. For a short time ( 1033-34 ) he had Kirman, but he lost to the Nasrid Sistan and Khorezm in 1034 to the Altuntaschiden. In military terms, he was in a worse position than his father, during which time there had been in all of Persia no companions of the same caliber. At the time, as Masud I. ascended the throne, however, the Seljuks started to cross the Oxus and occupy gradually Khorasan. Masud resistance was not very successful.

Some important events of his reign:

While Masud - now also the loss Ghaznas expecting - retreated to India, rebelled a part of his troops, murdered him, and set his previously released brother Muhammad returned to the throne. Before long, however, came Masud son Maudud to power.

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