Talk:Alp-Tegin

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Please don't change into Persian, if you want write in other languages where the state located, you should write into urdu,pershtun etc.


 * I think same as you, if there is no reply and just editing wars. I'm reverting to the correct version.Cheers Zaparojdik 00:09, 04 January 2007 (UTC)
 * And why shouldn't there be any Persian spelling? Alp-Tigin was a Turkic mamluk at the Persian court of the Samanids. He took over Ghazna in the name of the Samanids, and the empire of his descendants (Ghaznavids) was Persian in character and culture. Do you have any good reason for your position?! Tājik 22:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Date of Alptigin's death & succession
What is the source for Alptigin's death in 975? I've always seen the date of his death as 963. Citations for his death in AH 352/ AD 963 include C.E. Bosworth, The Ghaznavids, Reprint Munshiram Manoharlal, 1992, p. 38; Andre Wink, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1, Brill, 1990, p. 126; Encyclopedia of Islam Three, Brill, 2011 Volume 2, p. 36.

The article correctly states that Alptigin was briefly succeeded by his son. The date is obviously wrong and omits other Ghaznavid leaders. Alptigin's son, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, ruled from 352-355/963-966. He was followed by the military slave (ghulam) Bilgetigin (355-364/966-975). Another of ghulam, read either as Pīrī/Pīritigīn or Böri/Böritigin, ruled for two year before Sebük Tigin ascended the Ghaznavid throne in 366/977. See the citations above for additional information.

MichaelBednar (talk) 02:31, 12 July 2011 (UTC)