Person · r. 1432 – 1435

Ghazni Khan (Sultan Muhammad Ghuri)

غزنی خان

Eldest son of Hoshang Shah, crowned at Mando two days after his father's death under the title Sultan Muhammad Ghuri; cruel toward his brothers and officers, he was fatally poisoned by his own cup-bearer at the instigation of his minister Mahmud Khan Khalji in A.H.839/A.D.1435, ending the Ghuri line of Malwa.

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Regional Sultanates 14th–17th c

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vol. IV, p. 189 · read as page image On the following morning, being the 9th of Zeehuj, they carried their purpose so far into effect, as absolutely to place the King (who was quite senseless) in his palanquin, and to take him away from the camp on the road to Malwa; but they had not gone far before he died,—after a reign of thirty years.
vol. IV, p. 191 · read as page image Two days after the death of Sooltan Hooshung, Ghizny Khan was crowned at Mando, and assuming the title of Sooltan Mahomed Ghoory