Khalif s — Samdnians — Ghaznevides — Seljukians. 1 4% 



487 1094 28 Al-Mostadher billah ben Moktadi. 



512 1118 29 Al-Mostarshed billah ben Mostadher. 



529 1135 30 Al-Rashed billah ben Mostarshed. 



530 1136 31 Al-Moktafi beamrillah ben Mostadher. 

 555 1160 32 Al-Mostanjed billah ben Moktafi. 



566 1170 33 Al-Mostadhi beamrillah ben Mostanjed. 



575 1180 34 Al-Nasar aldln illah ben Mostanjed, professes Shia doctrines. 



622 1225 35 Al-Dhaher beamrillah Muhammed ben Naser. 



623 1226 36 Al-Mostanser billah Abu Jafar Al-Mansur ben Dhaher. 

 640 1242 37 Al-Mostasem billah Abii Ahmed Abd-Allah ben Mostanser. 

 In the year 656, (1258,) Baghdad was besieged and taken by the JVIoghul Chief 



Hula'gu, grandson of Jenghiz Kha'n, and t)ie Khalif Mostasen put to death. 



Table LXIII. Samanian or S am a' ni' Dynasty, of Bokhara, Khordsdn 



and Persia. 

 A. H. A. D. 



261 874 Nasr ben Ahmed, great grandson of Saman, a robber chief, ap- 

 pointed governor of Bokhara by the Khalif M6tamed. 

 279 892 Ismail ben Ahmed. 

 295 907 Ahmed ben Ismail. 

 301 913 Nasr ben Ahmed. 

 331 943 Nuh ben Nasr. 

 343 954 Abd-uhmalek ben Nuh, 

 350 961 Al-Mansur ben Nuh. 

 366 977 Nuh ben Al-Mansur. 



387 997 Al-Mansur ben Nuh, deposed and blinded. 

 389 998 Abd-ul-malek ben Nuh, overturned by the Ghaznavis. 



Table LXIV. Ghaznevide Dynasty of Persia and India, including 

 Khordsdn, Maver-ul-nahr, Bokhara, fyc. Capital Ghazni. 



A. H. A. D. 



365 975 Sabactagin, a Turkish slave of Alpteghin, a general in the service 

 of Sultan Nuh of the Samanides, held government of Ghazni, 

 and Khorasan. 



387 997 Ismael appointed successor, but displaced by 



387 997 Sultan yemin ud-daulat abul kasim Mahmijd. 



421 1030 Muhammed, his son, deposed instantly. 



421 1030 Masaud, another son, deposed and killed. 



432 1041 Muhammed, restored, and again deposed. 



433 1042 Maudud, son of Masaud. 



440 1048 Shams ud-din allah Saif ud-daulah, Abdurrashid. 

 444 1052 Ferokhzad, son of Masaud, 

 451 1059 Malek Mouiad Ibjia'him. 

 481 1088 Julal ud-din Masaud, or Abusaid. 

 508 1115 Arslan Shah. 

 512 1118 Bahram Shah. 

 548 1153 Nizam ud-din Khosru Shah. 



579 1183 Ghazni taken by Shahab ud-din, and the Ghori dynasty establish- 

 ed. (See Tab. LXXIIJ 



Table LXV. Sulta'nso/^ Selju'k Dynasty. 



[The grandsons of Selju'k, a Turk of the tribe of Khazar or Ghaz on the Cas- 

 pian, Toghrul-beg and Jafer-beg Daotid, were in the service of Mahmud of 

 Ghazni. In A, H. 429 (1036), the former resisted Masaud, and received 

 investiture as Sultan of Khorasan from the Khalif. The three branches of 

 the Seljuk family settled in Hamaddn, Kermcrn, and Rum or Anatolia. — Mars- 

 den's Or. Num.] 



I. Seljuk dynasty of Iran or Persia. 



A. H. A. D. 



429 1037 Rokn ud-din Abuthaleb, Toghrel begh, Mahmud. 

 455 1063 Alp Arslan, Abushajia Azz ud-din. 



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