Abu'l-Nasr Muhammad (died ca. 1010) was the last
Farighunid ruler of
Guzgan from 1000 to 1010. He was the son and successor of
Abu'l Haret Ahmad.
Biography
Abu'l-Nasr Muhammad is first mentioned during the late 990s, when his father made an alliance with the
Ghaznavid family by double marriage; Abu'l-Nasr Muhammad married
Sebüktigin
Abu Mansur Nasir al-Din Sabuktigin ( fa, ابو منصور سبکتگین) ( 942 – August 997), also spelled as Sabuktagin, Sabuktakin, Sebüktegin and Sebük Tigin, was the founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty, ruling from 367 A.H/977 A.D to 3 ...
's daughter, while Sebüktigin's son
Mahmud married one of Abu'l Haret's daughters.
In 1000, Abu'l-Nasr's father died, and thus he succeeded him, and became a vassal of the Ghaznavids, which had become a powerful military power, and had already imposed their authority on other petty
Iranian kingdoms. Abu'l-Nasr enjoyed the confidence of Mahmud; in 1008 he fought in the center of the Ghaznavid line against the
Karakhanids outside
Balkh
), named for its green-tiled ''Gonbad'' ( prs, گُنبَد, dome), in July 2001
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and in the following year escorted Mahmud during his campaign in
India. He also married off a daughter to Mahmud's son
Mohammad Ghaznavi
Muhammad of Ghazni ( fa, محمد غزنوی) (b. 998 – d. 1041) was ''sultan'' of the Ghaznavid Empire briefly in 1030, and then later from 1040 to 1041. He ascended the throne upon the death of his father Mahmud in 1030. He was the younger of ...
. When Abu'l-Nasr died in around 1010, Mohammad took over the rule of Guzgan, even though Abu'l-Nasr had left a son, Hasan. This marked the end of Farighunid rule.
Sources
*Bosworth, C. E. "ĀL-E FARĪḠŪN." ''Encyclopedia Iranica.'' 1 August 2012.
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1010 deaths
10th-century births
10th-century Iranian people
11th-century Iranian people
Farighunids
11th-century monarchs in Asia
Ghaznavid generals
Rulers of Guzgan