Badaun command

Who he is

Name

not pinned: Iltutmish by Minhaj (undated), or an earlier muqta

Title

Muqta (iqta-holder) of Badaun

Since

Badaun taken 1196 (Budaun page) or 1197 to 1198 (Aibak page)

Born

about 1192 (Iltutmish, per his Wikipedia page)

Family

If Iltutmish: a Turkish slave of Aibak, bought about 1197 or later; later Amir-i Shikar, then iqtas of Baran, Gwalior and Badaun; his son Rukn al-Din Firuz and daughter Raziya later reign (not yet).

Confidence

low

Minhaj (via Wikipedia): Aibak granted Iltutmish the iqta of Badaun, "the most important in the Sultanate", no date. Bakhtiyar Khalji "found his first employment in Badaun", accounts differ on who hired him. A Hizabr al-Din is the muqta we recall in Minhaj's Bakhtiyar story, unchecked.

Overlord

Qutb al-Din Aibak

What it holds

• Badaun and its near country; the road to Kampil and Kannauj

How things stand that morning

Garrisoned; the holder is the open question.

Threats

• Katehriya Rajput risings

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 23 March 1203Aibak is at Badaun to receive Bakhtiyar Khalji's booty (Wikipedia gives this date; it follows Bakhtiyar's Bihar raid).Depends on: The date of the Bihar raid.
2. 1205 to 1206Iltutmish brings a Badaun contingent against the Khokhars.Depends on: Iltutmish in office at Badaun.

Where the sources disagree

• Board: "conquered 1197 to 1198 from a Rashtrakuta chief", agreed with the Aibak page; the Budaun page gives 1196.
• The assignment says Iltutmish at Badaun and Gwalior is not pinned. Minhaj lists the offices without dates; Wikipedia dates the Gwalior amirship to 1200.

Evidence: The sources conflict.

On the map: Small seed.

Primary sources for Ghurids

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Chronography of Bar Hebraeus, Gregory Bar Hebraeus (Abu'l-Faraj) (about 1275 to 1286). A later compilation that for 1200 relies on Michael the Syrian and Ibn al-Athir, but adds the Jacobite church's own memory of the Jazira, Mosul, Melitene and the Artuqid and Zangid courts, and carries Michael's story past 1195: the Seljuk brothers' war in Rum, the Khwarazmian and Ghurid wars in the east, Mosul under Nur al-Din Arslan Shah, and the caliph al-Nasir. Read online
• The Complete History, Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir (about 1200 to 1231, at Mosul). The widest Muslim narrative for the years 596 to 597 AH (1199 to 1201): al-Adil's entry into Cairo and his taking of the sultanate from his nephew al-Mansur Muhammad early in 1200, the quarrels of the Ayyubid princes at Damascus, Aleppo and Hama, the Nile failure and the great famine of Egypt, Mosul under Nur al-Din Arslan Shah and the Jazira under Gokbori and the Artuqids, Baghdad under the caliph al-Nasir, the Khwarazmshah Tekish's death in 1200 and Muhammad's accession, the Ghurid wars in Khurasan, the Eldiguzids and Georgia, the Almohads in the west, and the Seljuks of Rum in passing. Read online
• The History of the World Conqueror, Ata-Malik Juvayni (1252 to 1260). Written for the Mongols but with a long retrospective on the powers they destroyed. Read online
• The Life of Sultan Jalal al-Din Mankubirti, Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi (about 1241, at Aleppo). A Khwarazmian secretary's life of the last Khwarazmshah. Read online
• The Nasirid Generations: a General History of the Muslim Dynasties, Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (1259 to 1260, at Delhi). The Ghurid court's own history, by a man born in 1193 whose family served the sultans of Ghur and Ghazna. Read online
• The Crown of Glorious Deeds, Hasan Nizami (Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Hasan Nizami of Nishapur) (begun about 1205 at Delhi, carried on to about 1217). The earliest history written in Muslim India and the only contemporary account of Qutb al-Din Aibak's campaigns. Read online
• The Nasirean Generations (a general history of the Muslim dynasties), Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (completed 1260 at Delhi). The fullest narrative of the Ghurid conquest of northern India. Read online
• The Tree of Genealogies, and the Manners of War and Bravery, Fakhr-i Mudabbir (Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn Mansur Mubarakshah) (the Shajara about 1206, dedicated to Qutb al-Din Aibak; the Adab al-harb in the 1220s for Iltutmish). The prose introduction to the Shajara, written within six years of 1200, praises Aibak and tells of his rise under Mu'izz al-Din of Ghur, his consecration at Lahore in 1206 and the Ghurid campaigns in Hindustan, with some notice of the Turkish peoples.

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