The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.82

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Maudūd died of an intestinal complaint on December 22, 1049, while preparing to visit his father-in-law, Chaghar Beg Dāūd the Saljūq, and in accordance, it was said, with his will, his infant son Mas‘ūd, aged three, was proclaimed Amīr by the servants of his household, who proposed that the boy’s mother, the daughter of Chaghar Beg Dāūd, should exercise the powers of regency, but the nobles of Ghaznī, who had not been consulted, refused to ratify this arrangement, and on December 29 deposed the child and proclaimed his uncle, ‘Alī Abu-’l-Hasan, who married his brother’s widow, the Saljūq princess.