The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c6.s1.1

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the latter district¹. In order to extend his influence over Transoxiana Il-Arslan, in 553/1116 readily agreed to intervene in the quarrel which again broke out between the Qarlughs and the Khan of Samarqand. The result, however, did not prove happy for him; for although the dispute ended peacefully, his siding with the Khan of Samarqand, led to an eventual rupture with his father's Qara-Khitai suzerain. By his refusal to continue the annual tribute, he even provoked them to invade his territories in 567/1172. In the engagement that followed the Khwarizm army was decisively beaten². This was a forcible reminder that no empire-building was possible in Central Asia until this infidel power was finally crushed; henceforth Khwarizm directed her policy to that end. Il-Arslan died early next year.