Reign of Khwarezm Shah Muhammad II (1201)

Name: Reign of Khwarezm Shah Muhammad II (1201)
Start: 1200
End: 1220

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 1200–1220

After his father Tekish died in 1200, Ala al-Din Muhammad II succeeded as Khwarezm Shah and by around 1201 had consolidated control over Khorasan and…

Timeline

1200–1201Gurganj · KhwarezmMuhammad II succeeded after his father Shah Tekish died, promptly purging the court and army and establishing his ruling authority over Khwarezm's core territories.
1201–1210Khorasan and Transoxiana · Central AsiaMuhammad II continued pushing Khwarezm's power into Khorasan and key Transoxiana cities such as Samarkand and Bukhara; Khwarezm became a great power straddling both banks of the Amu Darya, facing off against Western Liao.

Sources

The History of the Seljuq Turks: From the Jami al-Tawarikh — Rashid al-Din (trans. Kenneth Allin Luther) (1999)
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Khwarazm-Shahs — C. E. Bosworth