Person · r. 1186 – 1206 (in India)

Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad, son of Sam (Shihab al-Din Ghuri)

Ghurid sultan of Ghazna, younger brother and deputy of Ghiyas al-Din Muhammad Sam, who took Lahore from Khusraw Malik in 583 H./1186, ending the Ghaznavid line there and founding sovereign Ghurid rule in northern India; assassinated in 602 H./1206 at the halting-place of Dam-yak, on the road back to Ghazna, by a disciple of the Isma'ili Mulahidah sect.

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