The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.135

v3.c25.135

The part which Ikhtiyār Khān Siddīqī had played in bringing the new king from Khāndesh and placing him on the throne gained for him the regency, for Mahmūd was but eleven years of age. Ikhtiyār Khān was learned and accomplished and his surname indicates descent from Abū Bakr as-Siddīq (‘the truthful’), the first successor of the prophet Muhammad, but his father had held the comparatively humble post of *qāzī* of Nadiād and his advancement was resented by many of the nobles, now divided into factions quarrelling over the part which each had borne in attempting to overcome the calamities which had recently fallen upon the kingdom and over the compensation due to each for his sufferings and his losses.