Mas'ud I

Type Figure Region Afghanistan Time c. 998–1040 Also known as Mas'ud ibn Mahmud

Mas'ud I was a son of Sultan Mahmud of the Ghaznavid dynasty; he succeeded after his father's death in 1030, ruling a vast empire spanning Afghanista…

Timeline

c. 1015–1030Ghazni · GhazniAs Mahmud's eldest son, Mas'ud took part in Indian expeditions and court affairs in his early years; in the 1020s he was appointed to hold Khurasan, suffering setbacks in conflicts with the Seljuks, and was rushing back from the Indian battlefield when his father died in 1030.
1030–1037Ghazni · GhazniAfter Mahmud's death in 1030, Mas'ud defeated his brother Muhammad in court struggles to seize the throne, continuing Indian expeditions and attempting to curb Seljuk expansion in Khurasan; he effectively bore the legacy of his father's unsuccessful campaign against the Seljuks in 1029.
1037–1040Khurasan · KhurasanAfter 1037 the Seljuks captured key points such as Nishapur; in 1040 Mas'ud led a campaign in person but suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Dandanqan, losing eastern Iran; he was deposed and executed in 1040, and the empire's center of gravity shrank back to Afghanistan and India.

Sources

Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids — Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Encyclopaedia of Islam, s.v. Masʿud b. Mahmud