تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.1.1

11.1.1

The jurist, imam and most learned scholar, the chief qāḍī of Hind and Sind, Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Burhān al-Ghaznawī, entitled Ṣadr al-Jahān, told me that the city of Dihlī was conquered from the hands of the infidels in the year five hundred and eighty-four; I myself read this written on the miḥrāb of its great congregational mosque. He also told me that it was conquered by the amīr Quṭb al-Dīn Aybak — his name is spelt with a over the hamza, the yāʾ, last letter of the alphabet, unvowelled, and a over the single-dotted bāʾ — who bore the title Sipāh Sālār, meaning commander of the armies. He was one of the mamlūks of the exalted Sultan Shihāb al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Sām al-Ghūrī, king of Ghazna and Khurāsān, who had seized the kingdom of Ibrāhīm, son of the warrior Sultan Maḥmūd b. Sabuktigīn, who began the conquest of Hind.