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Death of Mahmud
In April 1030 Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud died of illness at Ghazni aged about fifty-eight after thirty-two years of rule;…
Timeline
- 1030Ghazni · GhazniMahmud had long suffered from tuberculosis and gout; his health deteriorated sharply in early 1030 and he could no longer personally handle state affairs. Court physicians and the vizier managed government business, while his sons and close associates began maneuvering behind the scenes over the succession.
- 1030Ghazni · GhazniMahmud died in the palace at Ghazni at about fifty-eight years of age. His mausoleum was later built at Ghazni and became a famous monument of the Islamic world. News of the sultan's death quickly reached Khurasan, India, and the Central Asian domains, and the empire entered a power vacuum.
- 1030Ghazni · GhazniMahmud's death marked the end of the peak of Ghaznavid military expansion. Seljuk threats from the east, succession struggles in the west, and centrifugal tendencies among Indian vassals broke out simultaneously, as the empire passed from regional hegemony into decline.
Sources
- The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994-1040 — Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1963)
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Mahmud b. Sebuktegin — C.E. Bosworth https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/