Minhaj-i-Siraj - Citizendia

Minhaj-i-Siraj (born ca. 1193, died after 1259) was a 13th century Muslim historian in Bengal. This is a subarticle of Islamic scholars, List of Muslim scholars and List of historians. Etymology and ethnology The exact origin of the word Bangla or Bengal is unknown though it is believed to be derived from the Dravidian-speaking tribe Bang Born as the son of a Ghorid Qazi, he came to India in 1227 and was made Qazi at the court of Nasiruddin Qabacha at Uchch. The Ghurids (or Ghorids; self-designation Shansabānī) ( were a Persian Sunni - Ismaili Muslim dynasty in Khorasan Qadi (also known as Qazi or Kazi or Kadi) (قاضي is a judge ruling in accordance with the Sharia, Islamic religious law Nasir-ud-Din Qabacha (ناصرالدین قباچه was the Muslim Turkic governor of Sindh, appointed by Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori in 1203 but declared Uch or Uch Sharif is located in 75 km from Bahawalpur in Punjab province Pakistan. After the fall of Multan to Shamsuddin Iltutmish in 1228, he moved to Delhi. ( Urdu:, Punjabi ملتان، ਮੁਲਤਾਨ is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, or Altamash, ( شمس الدین التتمش) was the third Muslim Turkic sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi Delhi (दिल्ली ਦਿੱਲੀ دلی d̪ɪlːiː sometimes referred to as Dilli) is the second largest metropolis of India, with a population He spent about two years in Bengal from 1242. Etymology and ethnology The exact origin of the word Bangla or Bengal is unknown though it is believed to be derived from the Dravidian-speaking tribe Bang

His Tabaqat-i-Nasiri is an important source for the early history of the Islamic invasion of India, covering the time up to 1259. The Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 11th to the 17th centuries though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into the region beginning

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Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, Biblotheca Indica, Calcutta, 1864;
Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, Calcutta, 1880

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