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.s1.4

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In Khurasan the Khwarizm Shah failed to make much headway; the Ghuzz and, lately, the Qara-Khitai, arrested his efforts. His preoccupations, however, provided an opportunity to the rulers of the petty principality of Ghor to extend their power quietly at the cost of the war-leaders holding the province. From their insignificant position as the chiefs of the mountain fortress of Ghor, they came into prominence during the reign of the Ghaznawide Bahram, who perfidiously murdered Malik Qutbuddin Hasan, a Ghuride prince who had taken refuge at his court and been married to one of Bahram's daughters. This roused the wrath of Saifuddin Suri, brother of the murdered prince, who thereupon invaded Ghazni and drove Bahram from the