Mahmud dari Ghazni (bahasa Persia: محمود غزنوی; 2 November 971 – 30 April 1030) atau Mahmud Ghaznavi[1] adalah pendiri dinasti TurkicGhaznawiyah,[2][3] yang berkuasa dari 998 sampai 1030. Pada masa kematiannya, kerajaannya berubah menjadi kekaisaran militer yang luas, yang terbentang dari barat laut Iran sampai Punjab di anak benua India, Khwarazm di Transoxiana, dan Makran.
^Homa Katouzian, "Iranian history and politics", Published by Routledge, 2003. p. 128: "Indeed, since the formation of the Ghaznavids state in the tenth century until the fall of Qajars at the beginning of the twentieth century, most parts of the Iranian cultural regions were ruled by Turkic-speaking dynasties most of the time.
^C.E.Bosworth, "The Ghaznavids: 994–1040", Edinburgh University Press, 1963; p.4
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